Lieutenant Colonel stated, in a statement to his award-winning plea agreement that the former first lady panicked when her change left the Dawn palace at the end of () () mandate in 2022.
According to him, Michelle told the people involved in the coup plot that they “had to do something.”
“Woman’s despair, right. When she saw her change leaving, she almost freaked out. [Entrou em] Panic, “said Cid, in a statement granted in August 2023.
“She spoke [para nós]: ‘I had to do something, I had to do something,’ “he said.
The statement appears in one of the videos released by Moraes on Thursday (20), who was a helper of Bolsonaro orders.
He is at the center of investigations that resulted in the complaint against the former president in the case of the coup plot.
Cid stated in the first testimony of his award-winning collaboration that the “most radical” wing of the group that defended a coup in Brazil in late 2022 included the then first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, and federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP ).
The transcription of the statement says that “such people constantly talked to the former president, instigating him to give a coup, claiming that the former president had the support of the people and the CACS [colecionadores, atiradores desportivos e caçadores] to get the blow. “
Cid’s denunciation is one of the basis of the complaint against Bolsonaro by the Attorney General, on charges that the former president led an attempted coup after losing the 2022 elections to prevent the inauguration of (PT) .
Bolsonaro was accused by the (Attorney General’s Office) of committing crimes of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against heritage, deterioration of overturned assets and participation in a criminal organization.
Added, the maximum penalties reach 43 years in prison, not to mention the aggravating factors, besides the possibility of being ineligible longer than the eight years for which he was convicted by the (Superior Electoral Court).