Bolsonaro's former Justice Minister assures that he "never" questioned the electoral result

MADRID, 24 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former Minister of Justice during the mandate of Jair Bolsonaro, Anderson Torres, has assured this Monday that he "never" questioned the result of the presidential elections, in which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won.

"I never questioned the result of the election, there is no statement on my part about it," said the former head of Justice, noting that it is an "ideological war."

Torres, who was the secretary of Public Security of the Federal District of Brasilia during the assault on the Three Powers by Bolsonaro sympathizers, has been detained since January 14, since the Brazilian Supreme Court considers that the invasion occurred with the "consent and even the effective participation of the competent authorities".

Likewise, he has asserted that "it has nothing to do with the facts", while he has described his arrest as a "cannon shot to the chest", since he was "on vacation", in reference to his stay in the United States. Torres was arrested upon his arrival in the Brazilian capital on the flight from Miami.

"This accusation took me by surprise, the custody hearing is not the place to say anything about it, but I want to say that I have nothing to do with the facts, this was a cannon shot to my chest, I was on vacation, a vacation dreamed of by me and my family," Torres said at a custody hearing.

Torres, like Bolsonaro, was not in Brazil on the 8th, when the assault on the headquarters of Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace took place. That day, the governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, dismissed him from the post of secretary.

Days later, the Brazilian Federal Police (PF) found a draft decree for an attempted coup during a search of his residence. Torres maintained that this document had been discarded and the seizure of it had been "out of context."