Representative of the Ministry of Defense at (CEMDP), Union lawyer Rafaelo Abritta warns of the need to legally supported cases of great political repercussion resumed by the collegiate, such as the DA, under the penalty of later lawsuits to be contested in the courts.
Extinguished by the Jair Bolsonaro government, the commission was recreated in the Lula administration, and the group’s current composition began to review controversial historical episodes. In addition to the accident that victimized JK, the commission will analyze the death of the educator, which also has doubts about the official version.
According to the president of CEMDP, the prosecutor is unanimous among those of the collegiate the thesis that it is possible to reopen cases of deaths in the dictatorship even after the period set by law, provided that the request has historical purposes – and non -indemnity.
In Apritta’s view, however, such a deliberation does not automatically ensure the legality of any recognition of these people as victims of the dictatorship.
“I agree with this issue of the historical memory of our country, to effectively seek the elucidation of these facts all. But, being very frank, they are my CPF and the other counselors who are there. So, it is foolhardy to practice any act before we are well shoes, with a thesis that effectively gives us sustainability,” he said.
“I am a lawyer with extensive experience acting on behalf of the Union with the Court of Auditors. I saw many cases where the manager, as goodwill and correction he had, acted outside the legal permissions and answered for it. So my first concern is effectively being able to build a thesis that embarrass the committee.”
For the lawyer, the very extinction of the commission and its subsequent recreation shows how the subject is subject to political contingencies. “Today we have President Lula’s government. I do not know if in 2027 we will have the continuity of his government or his successor. But we may also have an opponent. We then need to be very well backed in all the acts we are doing.”
Apritta also integrates the Amnesty Commission, another body linked to the Ministry of Human Rights. In the committee on the dead and missing, he was appointed correlator of the process of reopening the JK case – thirty with the original rapporteur, historian Maria Cecília Adam.
The Union lawyer is one of the members of the CEMDP who advocated the need for JK and driver Geraldo Ribeiro before reopening steps on death. The commission chairman, however, said that a possible refusal of family member would not necessarily be impeding to further investigations, as it is a figure whose history has undeniable public interest.
The cautious posture of Apritta and his designation as a correlator of the case raised the distrust, among whom he defends the reopening of the JK case, that the commission would be under pressure from the military or other critics of reanalysis.
Both Eugenia Gonzaga and Abitta deny pressures. “With the greatest frankness in the world: absolutely no one of the military government structure came into contact with me. Due to LGPD [Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados]that a lot of people let go, a family authorization is imperative to access certain personal data, “says the lawyer.
Head of the Ministry of Defense’s Special Institutional Relations Advisory, Abitta has reconciled in recent weeks his activities in the dead and missing committees and amnesty with the campaign for a place of minister, to be opened with the retirement of Minister José Coêlho Ferreira.
Apritta bet on the support of José Múcio Monteiro, the commanders of the Armed Forces and human rights movements, including members of the CEMDP and the Amnesty Commission. But President Lula eventually indicated the lawyer, who was the lawyer of the former PT president and a new minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations ,.
The nomination was a victory for the court, which campaigned for a second woman to integrate the STM – until here she was the only one in history.
In addition to the foggy deaths of JK and Anísio Teixeira, there is also the possibility of the Commission to analyze the death of João Goulart. According to the president of the collegiate, Eugênia Gonzaga, there is no request in this regard. “But I know that the son has been [João Goulart Filho] Fight for it [esclarecer se a morte foi natural ou um assassinato].”
