Last month, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, formed an ad hoc commission to analyze the bill pardoning those convicted for the anti-democratic protests staged in this capital.

The ruling withdraws the related debate from the Constitution and Justice Commission, slowing the progress of the proposal in the lower house.

According to the Court’s investigation, the higher tribunal acquitted four defendants among the 223 convicted for the most serious crimes (property plundering).

Over 42 were charged with minor crimes.

In addition, 476 reached agreements with the Attorney General’s Office, which sentenced them to pay a fine and take a democracy course.

Those arrested during the attacks on the buildings of the capital’s Plaza de los Tres Poderes were accused of violent abolition of the Democratic State of Law, coup d’état, armed criminal association, qualified damages and damaging property.

Those riots left material losses worth 20,7 million reales (about four million dollars).

In the sentences, the Supreme Court established the payment of a fine of 30 million reales (about six million dollars), divided among all the accused, for collective damages.

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