2023 riots in Brasilia: Argentine justice orders the arrest of 61 Brazilians

Argentine justice has ordered the detention of 61 Brazilian citizens located in Argentina and who are the subject of an extradition request for the attack on the headquarters of the three Brazilian powers in Brasilia in January 2023, the press said on Friday. ‘AFP a judicial source.

The order was issued by a judge at the request of the Supreme Court of Brazil and concerns 61 Brazilian nationals who are in Argentina and who have had “final convictions to prison terms,” said this source.

Brazilian police arrested hundreds of people suspected of involvement in the January 2023 attack, a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

“Two people have already been arrested”

On June 10, Brazil announced that it had requested Argentina’s help to locate on its territory the possible presence of more than 140 fugitives linked to the assault.

“Two people have already been arrested,” the judicial source said on Friday. “Wherever they are identified or located in Argentina, they will be arrested and made available to justice to begin the extradition process,” she added.

In October, the Argentine government amended its law on refugee status so that people who had been accused or convicted in their country could no longer benefit from it. On January 8, 2023, thousands of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the presidential palace and the headquarters of Congress and the Supreme Court, in Brasilia, demanding the intervention of the armed forces to depose Lula, while denouncing supposed electoral fraud.

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