Government releases CCTV footage from the Presidential Palace during the 8/1 attacks.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the release of hundreds of hours of recordings on Friday.
247 - The executive secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and acting minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI) of the Presidency of the Republic, Ricardo Cappelli, used social media to state that the agency has made available all the images captured by the internal security cameras of the Planalto Palace relating to the terrorist attacks of January 8, when Bolsonaro supporters and far-right militants invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the Three Powers in Brasília.
On Friday (21), Supreme Federal Court (STF) minister Alexandre de Moraes lifted the secrecy of the recordings. Security cameras recorded hundreds of hours of images of the depredation carried out by extremists at the Planalto Palace on the day of the attacks.
This Sunday (23), the Federal Police is hearing all GSI employees who were present at the Planalto Palace on January 8th as part of the investigation into the alleged involvement of authorities and civil servants in the coup attempts in Praça dos Três Poderes. Hearings were ordered by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday..