The former president () spoke again this Saturday (23) about his and defended those suspected of planning attacks to kill President Lula (PT), vice Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and the Supreme Court minister.
“Those who are being unjustly arrested now, in a preventive way. There is not a single support in the law that speaks of preventive to arrest these four officers”, he said while getting a haircut, during a live broadcast on his former minister’s social networks of Tourism, also from PL.
Bolsonaro also stated that the accusations of a coup d’état are absurd, called “this creative PF by Alexandre de Moraes” a joke and again referred to the minister as a dictator.
“This coup story is absurd. Are you going to carry out a coup with a retired general and four senior officers? For the love of God. Who was coordinating this? Where are the troops? Where are the Armed Forces? Wow, for the love of God. No keep putting horns on a horse’s head”, he declared.
The PF operation last Tuesday (19) targeted a reserve general, a federal police officer and three lieutenant colonels with special forces training, the so-called “”.
On Thursday (21), Bolsonaro and 36 other people for the PF for acting in an alleged plot to prevent Lula’s inauguration after his victory in the 2022 elections. The list also includes the general (PL), former Minister of Defense and former -candidate for vice, and the national president of the PL, .
The group is accused of attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, attempted coup d’état and criminal organization, whose penalties range from 12 to 28 years in prison, not counting aggravating factors. The (Attorney General’s Office) indicates that it should only file a possible complaint next year.
Asked by a follower about the “taxi coup”, the former president quipped: “Coup now no longer happens with a tank, it happens with a taxi. And it seems that the kidnapping didn’t happen because there wasn’t a taxi at the time. Oh, at least Love of God. This creative PF by Alexandre de Moraes is a joke”, he stated.
He was again referring to one of the five agents arrested last Tuesday, who had traveled on foot after failing to find a taxi on December 15, 2022, the day the group would kill or arrest Moraes, according to the police investigation.
Bolsonaro made the statements during a visit to São Miguel dos Milagres (AL), the city he walked through this Saturday at the invitation of the former minister. On live, he also answered questions from his supporters on other topics, such as football and his victory in the United States presidential election.
“Trump is the man who has freedom of expression above all else. This is very good for us, who in Brazil are losing freedom of expression. The dictatorship is present here. He is not the head of the Executive or the Legislature, He is a person in the Judiciary who has caused us a lot of harm”, he stated.
He referred to the printed vote as “additional security”. “This is not an attack on the democratic rule of law, whoever says that is a coward,” he stated.
In another interview during the tour of Alagoas, on local radio Maragogi FM, the former president also attacked Lula and stated that “they want to blame the Armed Forces, me, for an attempted coup, as if Lula were a defender of democracy “.
“How can a guy who puts out a red carpet for the [ditador venezuelano Nicolás] Maduro, whose country is a dictatorship and everyone knows… […] It is also associated with the dictatorship around the world, like in the Brics now, which brought Iran in and is bringing in the scum of the world.”
In the live broadcast, he also criticized the arrests for the invasion of the headquarters of the three Powers on January 8, 2023 and repeated that he will run in 2026, when “the right will return strengthened”, despite being ineligible until 2030. “They want to blame the right. They think that arresting will solve it, it won’t, because we’re here to stay”, he said.
At the beginning, he was told by a supporter not to give up and he repeated, smiling: “We are imbrochable.” He also joked about a comment about the size of his beard. “I want to disguise myself to travel around Brazil,” he said.
