Brazil government receives over 107,000 e-mails about pro-coup acts
Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security received more than 107 thousand e-mails denouncing anti-democratic acts that took place on January 8, in Brasília. According to the ministry's Access to Justice Secretariat, 102,407 out of over 107,000 messages sent by 27,457 denouncers were analyzed.
The e-mails disclosed names of suspected participants, organizers, and financiers of the attacks. Authorities, such as federal representatives, governors, mayors, and city councilors, who had supposedly called for the attacks, were mentioned in 7,003 messages.
The data collected were sent to the Federal Police, which is investigating the pro-coup acts.
The e-mails with the accusations were sent to the e-mail address denuncia@mj.gov.br, created by the Ministry of Justice on January 9, one day after far-right radicals stormed and ransacked the Planalto presidential palace and the buildings of the National Congress and the Supreme Court.
