Most of the (Supreme Federal Court) spoke on Wednesday (26) to (Attorney General’s Office) and make defendants the former president (PL) and seven others accused of integrating the central nucleus of.
Already voted for receiving the complaint the ministers Alexandre de Moraes, Flávio Dino and Luiz Fux. The votes of Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin are still missing.
The Supreme decision paves the way to judge the merits of the complaint against the former president by the end of the year, in an effort to speed up the trial and.
The receipt of the complaint, with Bolsonaro Defendant for crimes against democracy, also impacts the political situation of the former president. With the advancement of the process that can take you to prison, Bolsonaro’s allies are divided over the anticipation of a candidate for next year’s electoral race.
The next step in the process is the opening of a criminal action against Bolsonaro and its allies for five crimes linked to the coup attempted.
In this new phase of the process, the defendants must collect evidence, ask for expertise and select witnesses to defend their innocences. PGR, on the accusation, will have the role of proving the participation of the eight suspects in the coup joint.
With the decision of the Supreme, they become defendants (Federal Deputy and former Chief of ABIN) (former Navy Commander) (former Justice Minister) (former GSI minister Jair Bolsonaro (former President of the Republic), (former Bolsonaro orders), (former Minister of Defense) and (former Minister of Civil House and Defense).
They are accused of crimes of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against public assets and deterioration of listed heritage. Added, the maximum penalties reach 43 years in prison.
In voting, Moraes said he sees materiality and “reasonable evidence” in the PGR accusation that Bolsonaro led a coup plot after his defeat to Lula (PT) in 2022, and that the complaint detailed the former president’s participation in irregular acts.
Moraes said that the complaint narrates that Bolsonaro coordinated the federal government members to act illicitly in the construction of a disinformation narrative, and that aggressiveness was progressively intensified against institutions.
The minister cited the meeting with ambassadors in 2022, in which Bolsonaro made accusations without proof against the electronic ballot boxes and that, and the meeting with ministers in the same year.
“The complaint also points out that Jair Messias Bolsonaro was fully aware of the actions of the criminal organization and points out that, even after the defeat, it determined that the Armed Forces disclose a note to the maintenance of people ahead of the quarters.”
In the vote, he also described the evidence that Bolsonaro was aware of the so -called “scam draft.” “If he analyzed and didn’t want to [dar o golpe]if analyzed and wanted, this will be in the judgment of guilt. But there is no doubt that he was aware of the draft of the coup. It is called as you wish: State or Defense State Decree, whose intervention would be only in the TSE. “
The minister said that although Bolsonaro’s defense pointed out that there is no evidence that there was an intention to commit crimes by the former president, “the case shows the opposite.”
Moraes stressed that the defendants’ own defenses themselves recognized the severity of the scammer acts of January 8, 2023, even if they deny the authorship of any crimes that occurred at the time.
He exhibited such images from January 8 and other episodes of depredation and requests for military intervention that took place after Bolsonaro’s defeat in the elections.
The trial of the coup plot lasted two days and centralized the attention in the first class of the Supreme Court – which is in the background in the Supreme, highlighting the plenary of the Court.
The first day of trial was dedicated to the oral support of the parts – 30 minutes for the PGR and two hours for the defenses – and the discussion of the preliminaries raised by the lawyers.
The ministers of the first class denied the five topics presented by the defenses. The main one was the cancellation of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid’s award-winning collaboration agreement-the leading wire of the PGR complaint.
Maintenance of the agreement was the main controversy point. The ministers were unanimous in denying the nullity of the denunciation, but Luiz Fux, Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin gave evidence that the denunciation can be reevaluated in the coming months.
The thesis was raised by Fux. He highlighted Cid’s shuttle in the testimonies and said he has his doubts about the validity of the agreement. “This is not the proper moment, but I see with a lot of reserve nine allegations of the same collaborator, every hour showing a novelty,” he said.
The ministers of the first class also denied the defenses’ request to declare the incompetent supreme to judge the coup plot. The decision was by majority: 4 to 1.
Fux was the only one to disagree with the decision. When the Supreme Court decided, in 2023, to leave criminal actions with the classes, he had already shown reluctantly with this proposal.
This Wednesday, the second day of trial, the session was restricted to the analysis of the merits of the accusations. The ministers evaluate whether the complaint was evidence of authorship and materiality – or that is, if there is a minimal evidence of the participation of the accused that is sufficient to open a process.
The receipt of the complaint is the initial phase of the case against the defendants. It is a milestone in investigations into the coup plot, which began in 2023 and intensified in early 2024.
