Fugitive from the acts of January 8th dies in Argentina, says association
Animal trainer José Éder Lisboa, aged 64, convicted of the undemocratic acts of January 8, died this Friday, 27, in Argentina. The information was released by the Association of Relatives and Victims of January 8th.
José Éder was sentenced in June 2024 to 14 years and six months in prison by the Federal Supreme Court for violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup d’état, qualified damage, deterioration of listed property and armed criminal association.
In addition to the sentence restricting freedom, Lisboa was also sentenced to 1 year and six months in detention and the payment of a 100-day fine worth R$43,400.
He was also ordered to pay compensation for collective moral damages of R$30 million, which must be divided among the other convicts.
The animal trainer from São Carlos, a city in the interior of São Paulo, was arrested in the act on January 8, 2023, inside the Palácio do Planalto, in Brasília.
During interrogation, Lisboa claimed that he entered the Palace to protect himself from bombs and did not participate in vandalism.
He became a defendant in May 2023 and, in August, was released on condition of following precautionary measures. After being convicted, according to the association’s post on social media, he left Brazil and fled to Argentina.
According to the association, in recent days, Éder became ill and was hospitalized for several days before dying.
Conviction
The STF has already sentenced more than 800 people for the acts of January 8, 2023. The sentences range from 2 to 27 years in prison. The majority of those convicted, 225, had their actions classified as serious.
According to a STF report released in January, in total, 122 people are considered fugitives. According to the Court, measures have already been taken to request extradition from foreign authorities for half of them.
They were being monitored by an electronic ankle monitor and left the country after breaking the equipment. Once extradited, they must serve their sentences in a closed regime.
Extradition
The case of José Éder Lisboa occurs amid other decisions involving those investigated for attacks on the headquarters of the Três Poderes, in Brasília.
At the beginning of the month, the National Commission for Refugees of Argentina, made up of members of the Argentine ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Interior, granted asylum to Joel Borges Correa, aged 47, sentenced in Brazil to 13 years and six months in prison.
In November 2024, Correa was arrested in Argentina during a blitz in the province of San Luis, while heading towards the Andes Mountains
His extradition was requested by the Brazilian justice system. But Argentina’s National Commission for Refugees granted Correa refuge.
Another four Brazilians, with cases in which extradition was ordered along with Joel Borges, await the commission’s decision under house arrest in Argentina. They appealed the court decision to the country’s Supreme Court.
