The episodes of violence recorded after the 2022 elections, in the wake of the coup acts led by former president supporters (), resulted in complaints in at least three states, as well as convictions with penalties that exceed 15 years.
The acts included actions with and gunfire to the headquarters of a news site. There were also attacks on PRF (Federal Highway Police) agents and gunfire against drivers who tried to pierce the blockages.
In late November 2022. At the time, Bolsonarists charged them to promote a blow to prevent the inauguration of the then -elected president ().
In the few public speeches after defeat at the polls, Bolsonaro not of his allies, but criticized the methods of protests that included the closure of highways.
In November last year, to the former president and for an alleged attempted coup in 2022 to prevent Lula’s inauguration.
In Rondônia, a state that was one of the epicons of the demonstrations recorded in November 2022, at least 13 people who participated in undemocratic acts were reported.
Seven people were convicted in court, which investigated a group composed of businessmen, farmers and a military police from the Colorado do Oeste reserve (761 km from Porto Velho). The penalties ranged from eight and three and a half years, among imprisonment and detention.
The group, called the “Colorado Civil Movement Committee”, ordered the block of a highway and coerced drivers and civil servants. In the evaluation of the Public Prosecution Service of the State of Rondônia, they surpassed the right to manifest and committed crimes.
The investigators heard traders and truckers who claimed to have been embarrassed by the leaders of the acts. Traders said they were forced to close the doors, and the city suffered with shortages, as trucks with fuel, gas and water cylinders were prevented from entering the city.
One of the convicts threatened the owner of a supermarket in the city, claiming to know that she “was” and ordering her to post a Brazilian flag and a photo of Bolsonaro on her social networks. He also said that people who did not adhere to the movement would be retaliated.
A trucker who tried to cross a block was threatened with aggression with a piece of wood. With the vehicle withheld, it had a loss of $ 10,000 for not being able to seek a load that would carry.
Among the seven convicted in the first instance, one had the conviction confirmed by the Court of Rondônia, which determined the payment of collective moral damage.
Three other people were reported after the second phase of Operation Eleteria 2. They are accused of criminal association, fire and illegal embarrassment during blockages on BR-435 in November 2022.
Two suspects of involvement in the attack on the headquarters of the Rondoniaovivo newspaper were reported in December 2024 by the Public Prosecutor of the State of Rondônia. They are accused of crimes of qualified damage, severe threat and gun shots on public roads. The case took place in November 2022, following the elections, when the newspaper building was hit by more than ten shots.
A resident of the city of Teixeirópolis (RO) was denounced by the Federal Prosecutor of Rondônia for an attempt to testify legitimately constituted government, resistance to arrest and illegal possession of firearms.
On December 12, 2022, President Lula’s diplomation day, armed and hooded men intercepted a bus near the city of Jaru (RO) and forced the passengers to go down. The goal would be to set the bus burning, repeating acts of depredation recorded in other cities.
In the Attorney’s Office, the facts would be associated with acts against democracy. The goal would be, with the use of violence and intimidation, to cause a social seizure with coup goals.
In Mato Grosso, two men were convicted by the Federal Court for crimes of illegal embarrassment, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, qualified damage and fire. The penalties ranged from 12 to 15 years, among detention and imprisonment.
In December 2022, they participated in protests that included blocking a highway and set fire to the cabin of a truck while the driver was still inside the vehicle.
In Pará, two people were reported by the Federal Prosecutor for participation in the new Progress, which included gunfire attacks on the PRF (Federal Highway Police). In all 11 people were indicted – the process and inquiries run in secret of justice
In the evaluation of the Federal Public Prosecution Service, the performance of the group accounted for institutions and sought a “embarrassing, criminal and delirious” in the country.
In the state of Santa Catarina, an inquiry investigates possible crimes of protesters used homemade pumps made of bottles with fuel material, rockets and barricaded with burnt tires, garbage bar and tree trunks.
A man identified as leader of a group was charged with criminal association crimes, public transport exhibition, destruction of the thing of others and legal disobedience. The investigation has not yet been completed.
