Torres was Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District when radical followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and ransacked the headquarters of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the Planalto Palace, seat of the Executive Branch on that date.

A close ally of Bolsonaro, the former minister was one of the people investigated by the Federal Police about the political articulations for the attempted coup.

Three days before the anti-democratic actions, Torres traveled to the United States with the excuse of vacations, despite intelligence warnings about the risk of disturbances in the events scheduled for Brasilia on January 8.

The former secretary’s vacations were only scheduled for January 9 and in the United States he met with Bolsonaro, who had been there since the penultimate day of his term.

On Monday night, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, granted Torres the possibility of remaining silent before the interrogations.

He is being investigated for alleged omission in the assembly of the security scheme on the day of the coup acts.

The ICC approved the violation of his confidentiality.

Torres was in prison for about four months, but he was released by order of De Moraes, who imposed, however, the use of an electronic anklet.

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