A, a state body that is supported by the Lula administration of the Lula government, will hear relatives of the dead before reopening findings about the 1976 accident that killed the former president, whose causes have been a reason for controversy since the dictatorship.
The referral was defined this Friday (14).
After listening to relatives of the former president and the JK vehicle driver, Geraldo Ribeiro, the rapporteurs will submit the case to the commission, which will decide whether to comply with the investigation request and new steps. The board approved on Friday the inclusion of the driver of the vehicle in the procedure.
“The possibility of rediscussion of the case in question will be dialogued with families affected by the fact and analyzed in the light of the legislation in force in the theme memory and truth,” says a note from the commission obtained by Sheet.
The members of the collegiate understood that there is no deadline “for the analysis of facts that have historical repercussions”. “As in all cases analyzed by the Commission, it is essential that directly interested families are consulted to participate in the process,” says the statement.
The request to reopen the investigation of the JK case was filed in 2024, after the committee’s reinstallation, former councilor Gilberto Natalini, who chaired the São Paulo Municipal Truth Commission, and by writer Ivo Patarra.
Around 6 pm on August 22, 1976, a Sunday, the Opal in which JK was driven by his driver and friend Geraldo Ribeiro, was traveling at the height of the via Dutra, towards the river, when, unfortunate, crossed The central flowerbed, invaded the opposite track (towards São Paulo) and crashed into a trailer. JK and Ribeiro died with the collision.
Several investigations sought to elucidate because the driver lost control of Opal.
Those driven by the dictatorship concluded that just before the collision the car was hit by a Viação Cometa bus when trying to exceed it. It was the same verdict as CNV (and an external commission of the House of Representatives in 2001. By this version, there was therefore an accident.
Other investigations pointed out that JK was, in fact, the victim of a political attack, gathering evidence that there was no beat between the Opal and the Bus and that the car was misleading for some external action – mechanical sabotage or even a shot or poisoning of driver.
This was the conclusion of the state commissions of truth – it is open by a working group with researchers from USP and Mackenzie universities and, besides.
As a middle ground, but closer to this second group, a civil inquiry conducted by the Federal Public Prosecutor (MPF) for six years, from 2013 to 2019, ruled out that there was a shock between the bus and the Opal, but it was impossible to say it is impossible to say or discard “the bombing hypothesis,” since there are not enough material elements to point out the cause of the accident or explain the loss of control of the car. “
One of the main reasons that made the government and the committee of politicians dead and missing the former president was one side of the engineer and expert in transport Sergio Ejzenberg.
Made at the request of the Federal Prosecutor, the report is part of a civil inquiry on the causes of the death of JK and the driver Geraldo Ribeiro.
Unlike what previously completed previous skills (and the National Truth Commission), Ejzenberg attests that there was no shock between a Cometa bus and the Opal that led JK, which increases the mystery about the causes that led the former president’s car to Cross Dutra’s central flowerbed to collide with a truck that came in the opposite direction.
Guided by Ejzenberg, 3D specialist designer Ricardo Dachtelberg recreated. , incorporated by EJZENBERG to the technical report, are part of the case of civil inquiry, made public in 2021.
The animations show the disaster from three perspectives: the opal, the bus and the trailer.
It began a series of actions in Brazilian capitals. The collegiate was by the Bolsonaro government.
In the Pernambuco capital, a team of experts went to two cemeteries in the city – avozea and Santo Amaro – who can have bodies of victims of the buried regime.
Similar incursions will be held on (May 16), (August 15) and (December 3).
In the agendas, if there are evidence of missing bones, the intention is to perform exhumations and later perform DNA tests. In the case of the dead and missing in the Araguaia region, for example, the commission seeks a laboratory to perform missing DNA tests in exhumed bones.
The Federal Prosecutor’s prosecutor said that another purpose of the commission is to make a new report on dead and missing until next year.
