(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) A total of 653 people have been charged with crimes related to
the assaults on the seats of power in Brasilia on Jan. 8, Brazil's
attorney general's office said Saturday, trend reports citing xinhua .
The office said in a statement that proceedings were opened
against a new group of 152 followers of former President Jair
Bolsonaro.
'They were detained in a camp in front of Army headquarters in
Brasilia and are being held in the penitentiary system,' the
Prosecutor's Office said.
Bolsonaro supporters set up the camp after the elections in
October when Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president.
The group is accused of criminal association and inciting the
armed forces against constitutional powers.
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