Jair Bolsonaro felt on Tuesday night that the judicial zero narrowed for the first time around him with real danger of compromising his situation. The former president of Brazil was formally accused by the attorney general, Paulo Gonet, before the Supreme Federal Court (STF) having led the coup attempt against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on January 8, 2023. The excapitan retired from the army is related together with another 33 people with the alleged commission of the crimes of the crimes of attempted violent abolition of the democratic state of lawdamage qualified by violence and serious threat against federal assets. He ratified the conclusions of the Federal Police that the Conjura contemplated the murder of Lula and other political and judicial figures. The impact of Gonet’s presentation has been immediate. Bolsonaro is released, a benefit that has not received its former candidate for vice president in the 2022 elections, General Walter Braga Nettowho meets preventive detention. The ex -president and Braga Netto “They accepted, encouraged and executed acts typified in the criminal law As attentive against the legal good of the existence and independence of powers, “says the prosecutor in his brief.
The STF must now decide if you accept the complaint and Turn the defendants into accused. According to the media, the first room of the highest judicial instance will take action on the matter, formed by magistrates Alexandre de Moraes, frequently demonized by Bolsonaro, Luiz Fux, Cármen lúcia, Cristiano Zanin and Flávio Dino. The analysts agreed: the possibility that the cause progress ceased to be less crazy. “Now, if he is prosecuted and convicted of the crimes linked to the coup plot, Bolsonaro I could face a penalty of up to 28 years in prison and be inelegable for more than 30 years, “said the Paulist newspaper ´folha`.
Bolsonaro said, however, he is not worried about the progress of the judicial case. “Although they do not admit it publicly, some interlocutors of the former president with good connections in legal media already expect the Supreme to accelerate the case E Try to condemn it before December this year To prevent the final decision only to leave in 2026, in the middle of the electoral period, “said the Carioca newspaper ´O Globo`.
Criminal organization
“The events reported here refer to a President of the Republic who, together with other civil and military figures, formed a criminal organization structured to prevent the result of popula will from being fulfilledR expressed in the presidential elections of 2022, implying continuity in power without the regular assent of universal suffrage, “Gonet also said.
Bolsonaro accumulates a series of investigations of the Federal Police: the case of the appropriation of jewels received during his government and the falsification of vaccine certificates against COVID-19. The former president was also declared inevitable by the Superior Electoral Court until 2030 for attacks and lies about the electoral system.
But the events of the 8e They suppose a greater gravity That, said ´folha`, were the consequence of a series of previous actions. During the 2022 election campaign, and when the surveys favored Lula, the then head of state questioned the transparency of the same electronic urns that had allowed him to get to power in the 2018 elections. Bolsonaro came to threaten to suspend the contest if His requirement to perform it with ballots was not fulfilled. He said that, if it were for him, in Brazil he would not govern the democratic system. As the Voting Day approached in the first turn, he concentrated his anger in the STF ministers, including Moraes and threatened not to abide by judicial sentences, in addition to encouraging his followers to participate in anti -democratic acts. Also stirred the ghost of the Army intervention And he urged the ultra -right to raise camps in the barracks after his defeat, waiting for a pronouncement that never arrived.
The role of the Federal Police
While Gonet analyzed the investigations of the Federal Police (PF), Bolsonaro redoubled his amnesty orders. The victory of the conservative sectors in the municipal elections of October redoubled their claims apparently. The siege not only closes around the excapitan. It also complicates the main authority of the Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, the former Director General of Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) Alexandre Ramagem, now Federal Deputy, and the former Minister of the GSI (Institutional Security Office), the retired general Augusto Heleno.
The passage taken by the prosecutor was guided by the evidence obtained by the PF and settled in a report of almost a thousand pages. The institution said months ago that it had gathered overwhelming evidence “through Dand various investigations carried out over almost two years, based on the breakdown of Telematics Secretor, telephone, banking and fiscal, the award -winning collaboration, records and seizures, among other measures duly authorized by the Judiciary. “The police then recorded that Bolsonaro himself was involved in coup plans discussed at the Palacio de la AlvoradA, the headquarters of the Executive, at the end of 2022. The first version of the text discussed among the conjurers was presented to Bolsonaro by the edecán Filipe Martins. According to the PF, Bolsonaro then called the heads of the Armed Forces to discuss the steps to follow. A year ago, then Army Commanders, General Freire Gomes, and the Air Force, Brigadier Baptista Júnior, confirmed their rejection of it.
