The Public Defender’s Office submitted a request to investigate the government of after a prisoner in Papuda for involvement reporting to have suffered asphyxiation with pepper spray inside a van.
Lucas Costa Brasileiro was sentenced by (Supreme Federal Court), in December last year, to 14 years in prison for the crimes of violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, the coup, qualified damage, the deterioration of the overturned heritage and the armed criminal association.
The report made by the Defender’s Office, from the Brazilian report, says that the episode took place on December 20, 2024, during his transfer and other detainees from the Provisional Detention Center to the Federal District Penitentiary.
According to the document, after the use of the pepper spray, the vehicle remained closed, causing suffocation in Brazilian and other detainees that were in the van.
The report does not clarify whether the other prisoners in the vehicle were also related to the scammer acts January 8. The information was initially published by the site.
The State Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration, linked to the DF government, was sought but did not speak until the publication of the report.
Emmanuela Saboya, DF’s Public-General Subdfensor, confirmed that the Defender’s Office was triggered by the family of Lucas Costa Brasileiro and, in the face of the complaint, made an inspection.
“We are concerned with the situation of the prisoner and his family. We understand that the case is serious. This is not the first time we have received reports about his conditions, and so far he remains in the same wing and in the same circumstances. follows confidential on the Court of Criminal Executions, “he told the Sheet.
The Federal Public Defender’s Office reported that the agency’s protocol of action after receiving any complaint includes on -site inspections, hearing from those involved, diligences for the harvesting of probative elements and applications directed to the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration and the Court of Criminal Executions.
The Federal District Public Defender’s Office and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office also recommended to the Secretariat that the use of these instruments should be immediately communicated to the inspection agencies.
Detainees of the same wing also reported in the document problems such as excessive repetition of the menu and the lack of suitable mattresses.
During invasion of the headquarters of the three powers in January 2023, supporters of the former president advanced on the security forces and destroyed the facilities of the.
The Supreme Court has already sentenced more than 370 defendants, following the argument that the attacks were not isolated or just the expression of discontent, but acts with the purpose of provoking a coup d’état.
Bolsonarist politicians often minimize the potential of the attacks, stating that there were no minimal conditions for a blow and that the episode was only vandalism.
