Two months after the report of the (Attorney General’s Office) on the lawsuits against the accused advanced at a rapid pace, with one exception: that of the former presenter of the young Pan.
Ten years ago, the journalist accused of attacking general officers contrary to the coup d’état was not personally summoned and ended up having his defense to (Public Defender’s Office).
The public defenders were unable to contact Figueiredo and asked the minister to suspend the deadline for presenting the prior defense of the accused.
Without talking to the accused, DPU says that the presentation of a prior defense would be a mere formality and would constitute a violation of due process.
Paulo Figueiredo said to Sheet who has lived for ten years at the same address in the United States, already known by the Brazilian Justice. “The Rio justice just summoned me again [em um processo tributário]. It’s exactly the same thing [falha na intimação] that Rumble and Truth Social claim in their action, and the same thing that the goal claimed in the last appeal it presented in the case Allan dos Santos, “he said.
The traditional way for Brazilian justice to summon defendants in the United States is through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (Mlat). For this mechanism, Brazil requests international cooperation for various purposes as a request for defendants data.
The request for cooperation, however, is usually slower. In the crisis between the Supreme and digital platforms, most ministers have even decided that Mlat is a complementary instrument for Brazilian court to obtain information from foreign internet providers, used in situations that the fastest paths are not enough.
In the case of Paulo Figueiredo, Moraes determined the subpoena in one. A bailiff went to the address in Barra da Tijuca, on February 20, with the letter in hand to deliver to the journalist.
In the place indicated in the order, a party house works. An establishment employee suggested that the address was wrong, which it is common to confuse the name of the avenue, and the bailiff went to the indicated place.
In the new building, the condominium administrator received the bailiff and said that Figueiredo was “former owner [do apartamento]with a last record of movement of it in 2012 “.
With outdated addresses, Moraes ordered Figueiredo’s quotation by public notice – procedure adopted when the court runs out all the possibilities of location of the accused.
The minister also determined that DPU chose a public defender to represent the accused in the process.
“In practice, the Federal Defender’s Office is attributed to the elaboration of merely formal defense, which does not arise from contact with the accused and, therefore, does not constitute true defense,” says public defender Gustavo Zortéa.
Moraes did not decide on DPU’s request to suspend the lawsuit against Paulo Figueiredo. Sought through the STF’s staff, the minister did not respond.
The Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, decided to slice the coup plot’s complaint in five parts in a strategy to prevent the inclusion of many people in a single criminal action could disrupt the progress of the process against the alleged intellectual mentors, such as former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and reserve general Walter Braga Netto.
Paulo Figueiredo is on the fifth core of PGR, the only one who has only one person reported. According to the prosecution, the former presenter of the young Pan joined his “ability to penetrate the military” with the space on radio and television programs to amplify “personal attacks [contra generais] and increase adhesion [ao golpe de Estado]”.
The first class of the Supreme received the complaint against the main core of the coup plot, consisting of Bolsonaro and seven others in March. The board scheduled a date to analyze the accusation against three other groups of the complaint by the end of May.
