In a video sent to the Federal Police (PF), this Thursday morning (14), the ex-wife of the perpetrator of the bomb attack in Praça dos Três Poderes said that Francisco Wanderley Luiz’s intention was to kill minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). The information was released by CNN Brazil.
“I wanted to kill Minister Alexandre de Moraes and whoever else was with him at the time of the attack,” the witness told agents from the Federal Police intelligence sector.
According to his ex-wife, the attack had been planned by the locksmith for a long time and had the objective of killing Moraes and “whoever was nearby” at the time. She also stated that Francisco “only talked about politics” and had been obsessed with the attack on the magistrate since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the election in 2022.
In the report, she also said that his plan was to “do something bigger” and that he already intended to kill himself after Moraes’ murder. The ex-wife, located in Santa Catarina, must give more details in a face-to-face statement to the PF in the municipality of Lages.
Images from a STF security circuit camera showed the action of Francisco Wanderley Luiz, 59 years old. He detonated explosives against the Court building, in Praça dos Três Poderes, this Wednesday (13), around 7:30 pm, and then killed himself by lying on top of one of the artifacts.
The director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, stated this Thursday (14) that the explosions recorded on Wednesday night (13) are not “an isolated fact, but connected with other cases that the PF has investigated in the period recent”.
An investigation was opened and forwarded to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), due to suspicion of a terrorist act and attack against the democratic rule of law. “Our anti-terrorism teams are working on the case,” he said. The investigation is under secrecy.
