Anderson Torres was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings.
Brazil's Minister of Justice and Public Security Anderson Torres walks on the day of a news conference at Headquarters of the Federal Highway Police in Brasilia, Brazil, Brazil October 28, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
Torres was arrested after returning to Brazil on Saturday. He had been on vacation in Florida, the same U.S. state his ex-boss, former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, had traveled to after losing last year's election.The ex-minister said on Thursday that evidence produced by police was taken out of context when his home was raided this week.
The director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, said earlier in the week "the various omissions, allegedly intentional, carried out by those responsible for public safety in the Federal District contributed to the practice of terrorist acts."in the home of Torres on Thursday which they said appeared to be a proposal to interfere in the result of the October election that Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
"Everything would be taken to be shredded in due course," the former minister said in a post on Twitter on Thursday.
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