“Dictatorship Mata! Dictatorship lives from death,” said Minister Cármen Lúcia of (Supreme Federal Court), during the court session on Wednesday (26) that by leading a coup plot.
Before her, magistrate Flávio Dino said: “Coup of state kills. It doesn’t matter if this is the day, the following month or a few years later.”
Both ministers, in judging the complaint about the 2022 coup plot, made a reference to, which turns 61 on Monday (31). For experts heard by Sheet, The speech on the subject was pedagogical, and the judgment, historical.
In addition to the former president, they became defendants, former ABIN chief and federal deputy of PL-RJ, Admiral Almir Garnier, former Navy Commander, former Minister of Justice, General Augusto Heleno, former chief of the GSI (Institutional Security Office), Lieutenant Colonel and former Presidency Orders, General Paulo Sérgio, former minister Defense, and the general, former minister of the Civil House and Defense.
They are accused of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, as well as other crimes. If convicted, they can take penalties from more than 40 years in prison.
At the session, Carmen stated that Brazil has dealt, throughout history, with a “machine that tries to dismantle democracy” in reference to the 1964 dictatorship and other scammers. It was no different on January 8, 2023, which “no one in healthy conscience” can deny, he said.
Using as a reference the work of historian Heloisa Starling, the magistrate talked about “how the blow is not made in a day and how the blow doesn’t end in a week or a month.”
Therefore, he recalled the importance of “unfolding” the episodes described by the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, as acts that were already the execution of one.
“Why is it easy to tell the story, so that no one forgets-is the one on the 8th? Do you remember where you were on the 8th? Remember what you felt?” Said Cármen.
Unrolling facts lived by her and other court ministers, such as Luiz Fux – who had to sleep at the STF headquarters to protect the institution against an attack threat on September 7, 2021 – he quoted “the machine working to discredit” the ballot boxes, the tension in the 2022 election and trucks arriving in Brasilia on January 8, 2023.
“If it is a fact that that day [8 de janeiro]in front or inside the Supreme, or the Planalto Palace, or the National Congress, did not die someone, dictatorship kills! Dictatorship lives from death. Not only from society, not just democracy, but of human beings of flesh and bone that are tortured, mutilated, murdered every time they contradict the interest of the one who holds the power for their own interest. It is not for the public good, it is not for the benefit of all, “he said.
“Therefore, this is a very serious subject.”
Before her, Flávio Dino stated that the death accompanies dictatorships, even though he committed a historical inaccuracy, says Carlos Fico, Professor of History of Brazil at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro).
Comparing the 2022 scam hatch with that of 1964, the minister stated that there were no deaths on April 1. As I stay, at least four people died on the day and there are “very strong evidence of other deaths in the following days.”
“Stroke of state kills. It doesn’t matter if this is the day, the following month or a few years later,” said the minister, who recalled the Oscar winner’s merit “I’m still here”, by Walter Salles, to reschedule “the permanent and heinous character of the disappearance of people, torture, of murder derived from what?
“So those who in the 1920s and 30s of the 20th century normalize the arrival of Mussolini and Hitler to power saying ‘this is a normal process’, they certainly repented when they saw the consequences in the odd fields of concentration victimizing the Jewish people and so many minorities in Europe. Therefore, the coup is serious,” he said.
“The idea that a coup d’état or an attempted coup d’état, because it did not result in deaths that day, is a criminal offense of less potential offensive or susceptible to the principle of insignificance, excluding typicality. This is a dishonor to national memory. This type of reasoning is an aggression to families who have lost family members at the time of darkness of Brazilian life.”
They heard from the First Row of the Plenary of the Ivo Herzog and Hildegard Angel, sons of Vladimir Herzog and Zuzu Angel, two great symbols of the victims of the 1964 dictatorship.
“History is giving us the opportunity to see how the judiciary, how the state should face a plot of a state coup that could put us again in a period of dictatorship. The latter lasted 21 years. 21 years of dictatorship.”
For historians heard by Sheetthe Supreme Court session was historical and was pedagogical.
Historical because it is the first time since the proclamation of the Republic, that high -ranking scammers will be tried by a civil court, says Andrea Paula Kamensky, professor and researcher at the Federal University of ABC.
Pedagogical also, says Janailson Macêdo Luiz, professor at Unifesspa (Federal University of South and Southeast of Pará), by reinforcing the horrors that accompany any exception regime in a reality in which the country does not yet properly punish those who apologize to torture ,.
“This pedagogical character probably impacts the Armed Forces themselves than society in general. I imagine that, for them, this trial has a very significant impact, precisely by the transformation of these general officers and the admiral involved,” says Carlos Fico, to whom “the fact that the ministers referred to the coup of 64 is of the most important.”
