The Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil condemned on Friday 15 other defendants to participate in the coup acts that took place on January 8, 2023 in order to prevent the swearing in of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of the South American nation.
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By majority of votes, the ministers (judges) applied penalties ranging from 14 to 17 years in prison to the defendants, who are guilty for criminal association, violent abolition of the Democratic State of Law, coup d'état, qualified damage and deterioration of public property, according with local media.
The prosecutor Alexandre de Moraes recalled that a climate conducive to a rupture of the constitutional order was generated from a "concentration of people in camps, not only in Brasilia, but throughout the country, with the intention of provoking a mutiny among those subjected to the military regime".
The trial, that took place in a virtual way, the ministers Flávio Dino, Luiz Fux, Dias Toffoli, Cármen Lúcia and Gilmar Mendes supported the rapporteur of the case, Alexandre de Moraes, while Cristiano Zanin and Edson Fachin supported the report with reservations and proposed a lesser penalty.
Since the beginning of the trials of those involved in the coup try on January 8 of 2023, the Supreme Court has already condemned 130 defendants.