Operation Lesa Pátria (Portuguese idiomatic expression associated to "crimes against the State") is a set of ongoing investigations led by the Federal Police of Brazil investigating financiers, participants, and organizers of coup d'état attempts in Brazil, particularly related to the attacks on the headquarters of the Three Powers on January 8, 2023, in Brasilia. The task force is considered permanent by the Federal Police, with "periodic updates on the number of warrants issued, people captured and fugitives". Operation Lesa Pátria is the largest police operation launched in Brazil since Operation Lava Jato (2014-2021). Initially, the investigations were facilitated by the suspects posting evidence of their crimes on social networks. In addition, volunteers created profiles and accounts to assist authorities with the identification of participants in the January 8 acts. Brazil's Federal Police also released an electronic address (e-mail) as a channel for denunciations. The arrests are being carried out mainly in establishments of the Federal District Penitentiary System: the 19th Military Police Battalion (BPM), known as "Papudinha"; the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, composed of four male prisons; and the Federal District Women's Penitentiary, known as "Colmeia". According to the Federal Police of Brazil, those investigated should answer for several types of criminal charges, among them: violent abolition of the democratic rule of law; coup d'état; aggravated damage; criminal association; incitement to crime; destruction; deterioration or destruction of specially protected property. Background 2022–2023 Brazilian election protests Attacks on the headquarters of the Three Powers on January 8 Notable targets Ibaneis Rocha and Anderson Torres In the 1st phase of Lesa Pátria (January 20, 2023), the Federal Police of Brazil conducted an operation against Ibaneis Rocha (MDB-DF), former governor of the Federal District (DF), removed since January 9 by determination of Alexandre de Moraes, minister of the Supreme Court (STF). Search and seizure warrants were served in the office and home of Rocha, and his cabinet in the Buriti Palace (headquarters of the Government of the DF). The action, requested by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and authorized by the STF, was aimed at investigating alleged "omissive commissive" acts of authorities on January 8. A week earlier, Anderson Torres, former Secretary of Public Safety in Ibaneis Rocha's administration, had been arrested in Brasilia shortly after returning from Florida, where he had met with former president Jair Bolsonaro, for whom he had been Minister of Justice. The request for his arrest had been granted