Brazil's Supreme Court resumes trial of the first defendant in the January coup

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Brazil's Supreme Court resumed Thursday the trial against the first of those accused in the coup attempt of January 8, for whom the judge rapporteur, Alexandre de Moraes, has proposed a sentence of 17 years in prison. teleSUR

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00:00 And on Wednesday, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court began the first four criminal trials

00:04 of the defendants involved in the CUPES acts of January the 8th of this year.

00:10 These are the first four Bolsonaristas to be tried for the role in the invasion and

00:15 looting of the buildings of the three branches of government in Brazil.

00:18 The defendants, Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, Thiago de Aziz Mazar and Moacir José dos

00:25 Santos and also Mateus Lima de Carvalho Lázaro, will answer for crimes such as armed criminal

00:31 association, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and a coup d'état.

00:36 The trial began with the presentation of the case by Minister Alexandre de Moraes.

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