“Are you going to carry out a coup with a retired general and 4 officers?”

The former president (PL) criticized this Saturday (November 23, 2024) the investigation that accuses him of participating in an attempted coup d’état in 2022. According to the former head of the Executive, the story is a “absurd thing”.

“Are you going to stage a coup with a retired general and 4 senior officers? For God’s sake. Who was coordinating this? Where are the troops? Where are the Armed Forces? Don’t put a horn on a horse’s head,” said in live broadcast on the Instagram page of former Tourism Minister Gilson Machado.

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Bolsonaro also classified as “unfair” the preventive arrest of 5 soldiers who planned to kill the president (PT), the vice-president (PSB) and the minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) Alexandre de Moraes to prevent the elected government from taking office in 2022.

“They are being unfairly arrested now in a preventive way. They do not find a single support in the law that prevents the arrest of these 4 officers”, declared.

Read the list of soldiers who were preventively arrested:

• federal police officer Wladimir Matos Soares;
• brigadier general Mário Fernandes (retired);
• Lieutenant Colonel Helio Ferreira Lima;
• Major Rodrigo Bezerra Azevedo; and
• Major Rafael Martins de Oliveira.

BOLSONARO INDICTED

The PF (Federal Police) on Thursday (November 21, 2024) the former president, the former Minister of Defense General former aide-de-camp lieutenant colonel Mauro Cid and 34 other people for involvement in an alleged coup attempt in 2022.

According to the corporation, the indictment reflects the existence of sufficient elements to indicate the participation of Bolsonaro, Braga Netto and Cid in a plot to prevent Lula from taking office that year.

This is the . The penultimate was on July 4 in an investigation investigating the alleged illegal sale of Saudi jewelry abroad for the crimes of criminal association, money laundering and appropriation of public assets. Previously, in March, he had been indicted for falsifying vaccine certificates.

Here is the list of those indicted:

1. Ailton Gonçalves Moraes Barros;
2. Alexandre Castilho Bitencourt da Silva;
3. Alexandre Rodrigues Ramagem;
4. Almir Garnier Santos;
5. Amauri Feres Saad;
6. Anderson Gustavo Torres;
7. Anderson Lima De Moura;
8. Angelo Martins Denicoli;
9. Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira;
10. Bernardo Romao Correa Netto;
11. Carlos Cesar Moretzsohn Rocha;
12. Carlos Giovani Delevati Pasini;
13. Cleverson Ney Magalhães;
14. Estevam Cals Theophilo Gaspar de Oliveira;
15. Fabrício Moreira de Bastos;
16. Filipe Garcia Martins;
17. Fernando Cerimedo;
18. Giancarlo Gomes Rodrigues;
19. Guilherme Marques de Almeida;
20. Hélio Ferreira Lima;
21. Jair Messias Bolsonaro;
22. José Eduardo de Oliveira E Silva;
23. Laercio Vergilio;
24. Marcelo Bormevet;
25. Marcelo Costa Câmara;
26. Mario Fernandes;
27. Mauro Cesar Barbosa Cid;
28. Nilton Diniz Rodrigues;
29. Paulo Renato De Oliveira Figueiredo Filho;
30. Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira;
31. Rafael Martins De Oliveira;
32. Ronald Ferreira de Araujo Junior;
33. Sergio Ricardo Cavaliere De Medeiros;
34. Tércio Arnaud Tomaz;
35. Valdemar Costa Neto;
36. Walter Souza Braga Netto; and
37. Wladimir Matos Soares.