Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest of Anderson Torres, who was Bolsonaro’s justice minister before taking over this month as the public security chief for Brasilia
, where thousands of protesters vandalized the Supreme Court, Congress and presidential offices on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what the charges were.
Protesters at the camp had called for a military coup to overturn the October election in which leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated Bolsonaro, who made baseless suggestions of a rigged election. Roughly 1,500 detainees were held for questioning at a police gymnasium where they slept on the ground, some wrapped in Brazilian flags, and complained to a Reuters journalist that they were being held indefinitely and poorly fed. They sang and took selfies with their phones, video posted on social media showed.
Government lawyers asked Moraes to order cellphone carriers and social media platforms to store information that could place users in the areas of demonstrations on Sunday as authorities try to identify the organizers and their financial sources. Financial markets largely shrugged off the failed attempt to disrupt the democratic transfer of power in Latin America’s largest economy, with the Bovespa stock index up 1.5% on Tuesday and Brazil’s currency, the real, rebounding almost 1% against the U.S. dollar.
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