Supreme Court hands 51-year-old Aecio Pereira and 43-year-old Thiago Mathar 17 and 14 years in prison, respectively, for their role in pro-Bolsonaro riots that overran seat of power in Brasilia on January 8.
View of Brazil's high court during the trials over the January 8 riots by former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's supporters in Brasilia. / Photo: AFP
The court on Thursday sentenced 51-year-old Aecio Pereira and 43-year-old Thiago Mathar to 17 and 14 years in prison, respectively, for their role in the riots that overran the seat of power in Brasilia on January 8. Overwhelming security, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters also stormed the presidential palace and the high court itself that day, trashing the seat of power in Brasilia as they called on the military to oust leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The riots deeply shook a nation still divided by Lula's narrow win over Bolsonaro in Brazil's October 2022 presidential race and drew inevitable comparisons to the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, by supporters of then-president Donald Trump – Bolsonaro's political role model.
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