Members of the extinct São Paulo Truth Commission, along with personalities linked to the defense of the, elaborated a manifesto asking for the reopening of investigations into the death of the former president in 1976. The controversy has generated them since.
The document will be sent on Thursday (27) to the Special Committee on Political Dead and Missing (CEMDP), a state body with technical-administrative support of the Ministry of Human Rights.
As shown Sheet In February, the commission had already discussed the possibility of revisiting the case, but decided to hear the opinion of JK and his driver, Geraldo Ribeiro, before deliberating on the reopening of findings.
After this stage, the rapporteurs should submit the case to the board, who would decide whether to do the request and authorize new steps. Until the publication of this report, CEMDP did not report the current stage of the process.
The request for reopening of the investigation 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. Both also sign the manifesto that reinforces the request.
The documents point out that recent expertise point out inconsistencies in the official automotive version and suggest the possibility of sabotage. The group argues that the case should be reviewed to definitively clarify the former president’s death.
Among the signatories of the manifesto are Natalini, jurists, historians, former members of state and municipal committees and family members of victims of the dictatorship, such as the writer, whose father-former deputy Rubens Paiva-was murdered by the military regime.
Other investigations pointed out that JK may have been the victim of a political attack, gathering evidence that the car in which he was traveling his former Mandanker’s gathering due to external action-as mechanical sabotage, shot or even driver poisoning.
This was the conclusion of the São Paulo State Truth Commissions – which had a working group formed by researchers from USP and Mackenzie – and Minas Gerais, as well as the São Paulo Municipal Truth Commission.
A civil inquiry conducted by the Federal Prosecutor between 2013 and 2019 concluded that it was “impossible to affirm or discard” an attack, as there were not enough material elements to determine the cause of the accident or explain the loss of control of the car.
