The ex-wife of Francisco Wanderley Luiz, responsible for the explosions in Praça dos Três Poderes, stated that his plan was to kill the minister.
The ex-wife gave the statement to agents. She and other family members of Francisco Wanderley Luiz were located by PF agents. She said that the main target was Minister Alexandre de Moraes and “whoever else was with him”. “He said he would kill him and kill himself,” he said.
Wanderley Luiz shared plans and threats as a group. The ex-wife said that the person responsible for the explosions had been planning the attack since the defeat of the former president and was searching to make the attack possible. She, however, denies the participation of the perpetrator of explosions in previous attacks on the buildings of the Three Powers.
When asked by the agent if killing the minister was her ex-husband’s obsession, she replies yes. “[Obsessão] From him. So much so that he drove me almost crazy. Everyone on the street [dizia] ‘you’re going to go crazy’. He only talked about politics, politics and politics.”
She claims that her ex-husband only died because he was discovered. “He would never take his life unless he had fulfilled his objective. If he died in vain, it wasn’t for anyone, it was because they discovered what he was going to do.” In the images from the CCTV cameras at Praça dos Três Poderes, it is possible to see that Luiz retreats after being approached by a security guard. He throws some explosives at the STF headquarters, then lies down or falls to the ground with an explosive near his head and dies after the detonation.
‘Are you really going to do that kind of crazy thing?’
Ex-wife said she had access to Luiz’s emails, so she followed his steps online. “Since our email was all the same, I knew anything he did. So I knew where he was,” he said. “It revealed what he had researched, you know?”
“I had a Google search about it there. [matar Moraes]. So I told him: ‘Are you really going to do this kind of crazy thing?’ He said no. So I printed it and sent it to him and asked: ‘How come not?’ Why are you researching this kind of thing?”
“The first time he went to Brasília, a year or so ago, was the year Lula arrived. He stayed there for two months and came back and stayed here and it’s been three months since he went there again. Three to four months.”
PF investigates case as a terrorist act
An investigation was opened on Wednesday night (13). This Thursday morning, Federal Police sources informed UOL that the case will be treated as a terrorist act.
According to the general director of the PF, the man was carrying artifacts made by hand, but with a high “power of damage”, and a fire extinguisher that simulated a flamethrower. The investigations will reveal what materials the bombs were made from.
According to Rodrigues, “this lady’s audio is very categorical and there are other social media messages” that the STF minister was the target and this reinforces the seriousness of the episode.
The head of the PF said that the man’s comings and goings to Brasília, the quantity of artifacts and other elements point to the action being premeditated.
PM says he found more bombs in author’s house
The police say that the place where the perpetrator of the explosions took shelter was a “confined environment”. According to Major Raphael Broocke, from the DF PM, police officers entered the place and carried out a more careful sweep than the work in Praça dos Três Poderes. “There is much greater care because it involves other residences. It is a confined environment. So the police are taking extra care, much greater than the care taken here,” said Broocke.
The house where the search was carried out is part of a set of four kitchenettes. According to Sheetthe , and these searches of the residence were carried out around 10pm this Wednesday (13) by the police. Police reports indicate that the place was very messy and several objects were scattered around.
The room in the house where Luiz was staying had references to the attack. In the mirror, he manifested the plan to blow up the statue of Justice. In the residence located in Ceilândia, there was the inscription “on a shit statue, TNT is used”. The phrase was directed at the woman who vandalized the monument during the invasion of the STF building.
A belt with explosives on the perpetrator was identified by a robot and removed by a police officer wearing a bomb suit. Major Broocke said that the bombs were not removed by the robot due to an “operational limitation” of the PM’s equipment. Therefore, a police officer had to approach to cut the wires that connected the belt to the explosives. “It was a very delicate operation precisely to prevent further explosions from occurring,” said the PM spokesperson.
The PM also monitors places where the bomber passed to check if there are more explosives. “Monitoring of the places he visited is being carried out so that the teams can get as close as possible to the possibilities of him having planted a bomb in other regions, but everything is still under investigation”, added Broocke.
The body in front of the STF was collected at 9:05 am, almost 14 hours after the explosion, and released to the IML. The on-site investigation ended on Thursday morning (14). Francisco Wanderley Luiz approached the entrance of the STF at around 7:30 pm yesterday and activated the explosives he had on his body. According to a report from a court security guard, the man walked around the place with a “suspicious attitude” and lay on the ground to wait for the bombs to explode. A car also exploded in the parking lot.
