The defenses of the accused of composing the 2022 coup plot’s military nucleus told the first class of the (Supreme Court) on Tuesday (20) that their clients were not related to the letter of officers who pressured the army command to join the coup attempted.
According to the lawyers, the complaint of (Attorney General’s Office) ignores the denunciation of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, so far validated by the collegiate, and the evidence gathered by the Federal Police and the army by accusing the military by the coup plot.
The defenses were filed during the first part of the trial in the first class of the Supreme Court of receipt of the PGR complaint against the military nucleus of the case by attempting coup in 2022. The Court has already accepted the accusation against three reported groups, totaling 21 defendants.
In the second moment, the ministers go to the votes on the procedural matters and the merits of the complaint.
Of the 12 accused at the military nucleus, seven are reportedly reported to support a letter from army officers. Most of them, according to PGR, supported the pressure strategies about the armed forces chiefs at an informal meeting on November 28, 2022.
In a statement to the minister, Cid said the meeting was a “bar conversation.” “No one presented a document, no one sat down to organize [a pressão contra os comandantes militares]”The military told the Supreme.
The lawyers took advantage of the denunciation to defend the lack of indication of authorship and materiality to receive the complaint.
“The meeting on November 28 brings us to the award -winning denunciation where the collaborator was very clear: ‘It was a bar conversation.’ He says it was a fraternization, nothing more than that. The collaborator himself speaks in his award -winning denunciation that was now a coup, of institutional rupture,” said lawyer Ruyter Barcelos, lawyer of Colonel Bernardo Romaa Neto.
Barcelos also said that Correa Neto has nothing to do with coup plans or murder of authorities. And criticized the colonel’s pre -trial detention, who had been in the United States for eight months, by army determination for a course at the Inter -American Defense College.
“The army was able to consulted by the Federal Police – a letter was bound and he would not be in the embarrassment of a pre -trial detention that I consider unnecessary,” he said.
Lawyer Cleber Lopes, advocate of General Nilton Diniz Rodrigues, said that Mauro Cid’s denunciation cannot be considered useful for the accusation and useless for defensive theses.
The defense of Colonel Cleverson Ney Magalhães also points out as fragile the complaint and the PF report. According to Luiz Mário Félix de Moraes Guerra, even the analysis of the military’s cell phone did not earn investigators any element of evidence against him.
“There is no demonstration agreeing with any blow, saying Avante, come on, in emoji, nothing nodding with any kind of illicit plan,” he said.
He asked the complaint not to be received. “Criminal proceedings penalize regardless of its subsequent acquittal. The absorption of the innocent accused in criminal proceedings is the bankruptcy of criminal proceedings, because the state has spent money, spent energy from the public servant and the defendant suffers for years to be acquitted,” he said.
The Military Core of the PGR denunciation is composed of two different groups. One is accused of pressuring the Armed Forces chiefs to join the coup plot; Another is suspected of monitoring the location of Minister Alexandre de Moraes and planning his arrest and murder.
In this round, there are 12 accused to have the complaint analyzed: (colonel), (colonel), (reserve general), (colonel), (lieutenant colonel), (colonel), (general), (lieutenant colonel), (lieutenant colonel), (lieutenant colonel), (lieutenant colonel) and (federal police).
This is the largest group of the complaint. The other three parts analyzed so far have been unanimously accepted.
The first session was on March 26, when the first class as members of the so -called central core of the plot. On April 22, the board of “action management”. The last round so far was on May 6, when the.
The tendency is that the vows of merit will be similar to previous analyzes and, thus, the board will increase the list of defendants to 33 by articulating the attempt to prevent Lula’s (PT) possession, including former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
They are accused of five crimes: attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup, armed criminal organization, qualified damage and deterioration of listed heritage. If the complaint is accepted, they become defendants and a criminal action is opened against them.
