The Supreme Court of Brazil sentenced to 17 years in prison the man who stole a ball self -graduated by Neymar in the National Congress, during the assault that thousands of ultra -rightists perpetrated the venues of the three powers on January 8, 2023, official sources reported Tuesday.
The conviction against Nelson Ribeiro Fonseca Júnior was issued by the five members of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court after a virtual trial that concluded on Monday, according to the sentence published Tuesday by the highest court.
In addition to theft qualified by the theft of the ball, the convicted person was declared guilty of the crimes of violent abolition of the democratic state of law, coup d’etat, deterioration of public heritage, armed association to commit crimes and qualified damage.
Ribeiro Fonseca confessed to having participated in the assault with which the followers of the now former president Jair Bolsonaro tried to force a coup against the current head of state, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, eight days after his investiture.
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His arrest took place a month after the coup acts, when he presented himself to a police station in the city of Sorocaba, about 860 kilometers from Brasilia, to return the ball and confess his responsibility.
The ball with the autograph of Neymar, an attacker of the Brazilian team was a gift that a delegation of Santos delivered in 2012 to the Chamber of Deputies after a solemn session to honor the centenary of the Paulista club.
The members of the Maximum Court rejected the defense allegations, which indicate that Ribeiro Fonseca seized the ball to protect him in the midst of the attacks on Congress and that was why he had returned him a month later.
According to the instructor magistrate of the case, Alexandre de Moraes, the convicted man was not only associated with a criminal group that sought an institutional rupture with a coup but also encouraged third parties to do the same.
Of the nearly 2,000 followers of Jair Bolsonaro detained for the coup acts of January 8, 2023, about 500 were sentenced to sentences that vary between 13 and 17 years.
With EFE information
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