President of the Supreme Court definitively archives the fake news investigation

This fake news inquiry was opened seven years ago, in 2019. At the time, the then president of the Federal Supreme Court, minister Dias Toffoli, chose minister Alexandre de Moraes to be the case's rapporteur. And today, the Attorney General's Office sent an opinion to the President of the Supreme Court, Edson Fachin, defending the end of this investigation, the shelving of it. This evening, the president of the Supreme Court agreed with this request from the PGR and ordered the investigation to be closed. Fachin said that "there is no longer any basis for maintaining the procedure indefinitely, without a concrete reassessment of the need for its continuity as a main investigation." Regarding the secrecy of the investigations, Fachin said that "data related to the intimacy and private lives of people and public authorities mentioned throughout the investigations" must be protected. The president of the Supreme Court also argued that "the protection of democratic institutions, no less than the prosecution of those who attack them, must be carried out within the Constitution. It is this same Constitution that protects the independence of the Judiciary and that guarantees to everyone the reasonable duration of the process, freedom and due legal process". Fachin also said that the conclusion of the investigations must be immediate, determining the end of any new investigation.