The former Minister of Defense and candidate for vice on the (PL) ticket, general, refuted this Saturday (23) suspicions about his involvement in a coup plot after the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in the 2022 presidential elections.
Braga Netto spoke out through his social networks, accompanied by a note in his defense. The military said there were no plans to assassinate authorities.
“It was never a coup, much less a plan to assassinate someone,” he wrote.
on Thursday (21), as well as former president Bolsonaro and 35 other people, who allegedly participated in a deal to prevent Lula from taking office, after his victory in the presidential elections.
Also on the list are the national president of the PL, the former director general of the (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), now a federal deputy, and the former minister of the (Institutional Security Office) Augusto Heleno, this reserve general.
The indictment names 37 names as suspects in the crimes of violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état and criminal organization.
The PF investigations also showed that the plan to kill Lula, the current deputy Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and the minister of the (Supreme Federal Court), was discussed at Braga Netto’s house.
The lieutenant colonel also told Alexandre de Moraes that the former minister participated in the meeting on November 12, 2022 with military personnel indicted on suspicion of participating in a coup plot to prevent Lula from taking office.
The post on network
“General Braga Netto’s defense believes that compliance with the rites of due legal process will elucidate the truth of the facts and the responsibility of each entity involved in the aforementioned investigations, for their actions and omissions”, states the note.
The military’s post, as well as the note, also seek to refute the thesis that he was planning a “coup within a coup”. The general wrote that it was a “fanciful and absurd thesis”.
The defense note also adds that the general, during the last government, was one of the few who “maintained loyalty” to the then president until the end of the government, in December 2022, and has maintained it to this day. The text also adds that this positioning is due to “belief in the same non-negotiable values and principles”.
The text still raises doubts about possible interests in disseminating these lessons.
In a previous statement, the first after the indictment on Thursday, Braga Netto’s defense had stated that it “vehemently repudiates, and from the outset, the undue dissemination of information” to the press “to the detriment of due access to the parties directly involved and interested “.
“Thus, the defense will wait for the official receipt of the information to adopt a formal and reasoned position.”
