The commander of, asked the (Supreme Federal Court) to be dismissed from the testimony as witnesses of the.
Olsen was nominated to witness in favor of the current commander. The testimony is scheduled for Friday (23). The decision is up to the minister.
“The applicant informs that he is unaware of the facts subject to this criminal action, which is why it requires the rejection of his hearing as a witness,” the Union lawyers who represent Olsen told the Supreme Court.
Marcos Olsen was a commander of Naval Operations in 2022, an area responsible for the preparation and use of Naval forces and Marines in the Navy. In the view of Garnier’s defense, the appropriate witness to prove that there was no movement of troops at the end of the government () to give a coup d’état.
The current commander was also a member of the admiral, a collegiate of the Navy composed of the ten-cadra admirals of the active. The high echelon of force gathers periodically.
The admiralty lived a conflict at the end of 2022. At a meeting on the eve of Christmas, Garnier announced that he would not participate in the command ceremony -. The motivations were political, according to admiral interlocutors.
Two admirals told the Sheet that the situation of the Navy Commander is delicate. If you decide to testify in favor of Garnier, you can get a new conflict with the Planalto Palace for worn -out. If you expose the former commander’s disintegrating facts, it can be poorly seen by the peers.
Defendants of the central core of the coup plot
The decision on Olsen’s testimony is up to Minister Alexandre de Moraes. He asked Garnier’s defense on Thursday (22) to comment on the request for withdrawal. In the evaluation of members of the Supreme, the presence of the navy head is already optional because it was not summoned judicially to testify.
Former Marinhan Summit members wrote letters to the Supreme to praise Garnier’s performance in charge of the Naval Force.
Reserve Admiral Marcelo Francisco Campos wrote that Garnier had unblemished conduct, with “noble values such as honor, loyalty, discipline, spirit of sacrifice, courage and tenacity.”
“Thus, I reiterate that I detect knowledge of the existence of facts that motivated the present criminal action, and my manifestation is exclusively focused on reporting the extremely professional stance I observed throughout the coexistence with Squadron Admiral Almir Garnier Santos, then commander of the Navy.”
Similar report was made by reserve admiral Antonio Capistrano de Freitas Filho, former chief of staff of Garnier. He says that the former commander was “worthy sailor, for honoredly he led his long career, and would do nothing that could maculate.”
Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen shook in the position of Navy Commander after publicizing, by the end of 2023, a video in honor of the day of the sailor who compared a difficult lifestyle of the military with a party and rest of civilians.
The context was the discussion in the government of a spending cutting package that included the. The Ministry of Finance wanted to set a minimum retirement age for the military, among other measures, on the grounds that officers leave the active early and enjoy benefits in the reserve.
The video displeased President Lula (PT) and Finance Minister Fernando Haddad. The petista considered dismissing the Admiral. The Defense Minister, José Mucio Monteiro, decided to keep Olsen in office and manage the crisis internally to avoid escalating dissatisfaction within the Navy.
Almir Garnier Santos is accused by (Attorney General’s Office) for allegedly made the Navy troops available to the coup rated by former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
The former navy chief responds to five crimes: armed criminal association, coup d’état, attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, damage qualified to public heritage and deterioration of listed heritage.
Former aeronautics chief Carlos de Almeida Baptista Junior confirmed to the Supreme on Wednesday (21) that Garnier agreed with Bolsonaro’s scammers.
“In one of these meetings, I have a very passive view of the Admiral. I remember Minister Paulo Sérgio and I talked more, we discussed more, we were taking the president more. In one of these meetings, the point where he said that the navy troops would be available to President Bolsonaro,” he said.
