Argentine justice has ordered the detention of 61 Brazilian citizens located in Argentina and who are the subject of an extradition request for the attack on the headquarters of the three Brazilian powers in Brasilia in January 2023, the press said on Friday. ‘AFP a judicial source.
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The order was issued by a judge at the request of the Supreme Court of Brazil and concerns 61 Brazilian nationals who are in Argentina and who had “ final convictions to prison terms », Specified this source.
Brazilian police arrested hundreds of people suspected of involvement to the attack of January 2023a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. On June 10, 2024, Brazil announced that it had requested Argentina’s help to locate on its territory the possible presence of more than 140 fugitives linked to the assault.
“ Two people have already been arrested “, said the judicial source on Friday. “ Wherever they are identified or located in Argentina, they will be arrested and made available to justice to begin the extradition process. “, she added. The extradition decision can, however, be appealed to the Supreme Court. If this appeal were exhausted, the procedure would then pass to the executive power which could “ accept extradition, grant refugee status or another remedy and thus avoid extradition », from the same source.
In October, the Argentine government amended its law on refugee status so that people who had been accused or convicted in their country could no longer benefit from it.
Two arrests
The two people already arrested in Argentina are Joelton Gusmao de Oliveira, 47, and Rodrigo De Freitas Moro, 34. They were both arrested in La Plata, 60 kilometers southeast of the capital Buenos Aires. The first was arrested on Thursday, his behavior having been considered “ suspicious » by the local police. He was sentenced in February in absentia in Brazil to 17 years in prison. The Brazilian portal UOL reported, citing three sources close to the matter, that Joelton Gusmao de Oliveira was arrested while trying to renew his refugee status at the migration office. The second, sentenced to 14 years in prison in Brazil, was arrested Friday in La Plata, when he “ was going to carry out immigration procedures », According to the police of the province of Buenos Aires.
The two men were found guilty of attempted coup d’état, aggravated damage, armed criminal association and violent abolition of the democratic rule of law in particular, specified the same source.
On January 8, 2023, thousands of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the presidential palace and the headquarters of Congress and the Supreme Court, in Brasilia, demanding the intervention of the armed forces to depose Lula, while denouncing supposed electoral fraud.
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