BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina has ordered the arrest of 61 Brazilian residents needed of their dwelling nation for taking part within the 2023 storming of presidency buildings in Brasilia by supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, an Argentine supply mentioned on Saturday.
Two individuals have been arrested to this point who face jail sentences in Brazil, a judicial supply in Argentina informed Reuters, talking on the situation of anonymity as a result of the particular person was not licensed to talk publicly.
Argentina obtained an extradition request from Brazil’s judicial authorities final month.
In the course of the Jan. 8, 2023 incident, every week after leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took workplace, a number of thousand Bolsonaro supporters invaded and ransacked the Congress constructing, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court docket.
Some rioters fled to Argentina, hoping to seek out refuge underneath the federal government of right-wing President Javier Milei.
Federal police officers in Brazil mentioned in June they believed between 50 and 100 Bolsonaro supporters charged with vandalism and riot had entered Argentina to keep away from authorized penalties. Many had convictions from the Brazil Supreme Court docket carrying heavy sentences.
Bolsonaro’s former vice chairman, Senator Hamilton Mourao, mentioned on the time that those that fled to Argentina didn’t consider they’d get a good trial in Brazil.
The Brasilia riots resembled the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-former President Donald Trump, who since has been elected to a second time period.
Brazilian authorities arrested some 3,000 individuals after the riots, and about half are nonetheless in jail.
Political violence flared up once more final week after an tried bomb assault on the Brazil Supreme Court docket, in a reminder of the ransacking of the constructing by Bolsonaro supporters final 12 months.
The incident has hardened consensus in Congress in opposition to a proposal to supply amnesty to members within the 2023 assaults.