The minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) compared the coup attacks of 8 January 2023 to residential invasions to question the support of the amnesty project to those involved. According to him, people of good faith should reflect, with the equalization, if forgiveness to the acts would be acceptable.
The minister made the statement to vote to make defendants all six members of the second core of the 2022 coup plot.
“People in good faith should reflect and wonder if what happened in Brazil occurred in your home, if an armed group came into your home, destroying, in order to get your neighbor to send everything with destruction, bombs, would you ask these people to ask for these people?”
He follows the analogy: “Why, for Brazil, democracy, the attempt to break the Democratic Rule of Law, so many people defend this? If in my house I wouldn’t admit, why am I admitting this to the country, to the republic that democratically elected its members?”
The minister’s vote was unanimously followed by the other members of the first class.
Moraes also countered criticism that he reports and judges the case of the 2022 coup plot even being named as a victim of the plan.
According to him, the accusation deals with attack on democratic institutions, not him, personally.
“The complaint does not refer to attempted murder. Obviously, if there was a complaint of attempted murder, these facts would be separated and distributed to another minister. Here is an attack on democratic institutions,” said the minister.
Moraes states that mentions about attempted murder of authorities are related to attempts to prevent investigations. Still, that it is not up to the investigated to choose the judge who will judge them.
“Otherwise it would be enough to threaten rapporteur to withdraw it from the case. The defendant cannot create supervening facts to cause the judge to withdraw,” he said.
which at the time presided over the (Superior Electoral Court). The plan to kill Moraes was called “” and, according to the PF, projected the murder of the minister and considered extending the action A (PT) and (PSB).
The first class of the Court analyzed the complaint of (Attorney General of the Republic) against (former member of the Ministry of Justice) (former international presidential advisor), (former president of the presidency), (former member of the Ministry of Justice) (former executive secretary of the General Secretariat of the Presidency) and (former director general of the Federal Highway Police).
The trial began in the morning, when the collegiate heard the defenses of the six accused and refused the preliminary calls, the procedural issues about the processing of the case so far. The decision was unanimous.
According to Moraes, the PGR complaint against the six accused has evidence of materiality and authorship, that is, for him there is evidence about the crimes pointed out and the performance of those involved.
The rapporteur states that the complaint was consistent in the exposure of the facts, with “widely satisfactory description”.
As in the session that made Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants in March, the minister broadcast a video with images of the depredation of public buildings and violence in the Praça dos Três Powers on January 8.
“It is also important that these images, which are public, remove any claim that there was peaceful manifestation with ladies with Bible in hand. There is no lady with Bible in hand. All that appeared later are assemblies of digital militias,” he said.
He also cited the blitze held by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) on the day of the second round in cities where Lula was the most voted in the first round.
“No police operation, even on election days, is based on how many votes each candidate had in the first round. This is an absolutely irrelevant element. It should be more likely, more likelihood of cities, in the case of PRF,” Moraes said in the vote.
