The Attorney General of the Republic, changed this Thursday (22) the style of in the process by the coup plot. The new profile was adopted after ministers of the (Supreme Federal Court).
Gonet was firmer at the hearing with the witnesses chosen by the defense of Lieutenant Colonel, in the assessment of two members of the Court. Especially with the general, former army commander.
The prosecutor interrupted Arruda’s speech when the general fled the central theme of the questions and explored excerpts from the testimony considered controversial.
Gonet’s change of posture became clear at the beginning of the inquiry. He asked the former army chief confirmed the reporting content published by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo who mentioned a meeting between Arruda and the reserve general Mario Fernandes, accused of planning the murder of authorities in the coup plot.
“The press puts a lot of things right. I know General Mario and he was my student in the command course in 1988. I took the course in 1987, in 1988 I was an instructor. And he was one of the most modern officers. We served together,” Arruda said.
Gonet interrupted the answer by evaluating that the general fled the subject. He wanted to know if the meeting was true. “That’s not what I asked. Confirms that he [Mario] Were it there? “Gonet asked.
Arruda eventually confirmed that the meeting took place on December 28, 2022, in her office at the Army Engineering and Construction Department. He denied, however, that the general has made coup appeals or expelled his classmate from the room.
The prosecutor also explored a divergence in Arruda’s testimony about the reasons for Mario Fernandes’s visit. In the first version, the deponent said that the reserve general wanted to know if Arruda would actually be appointed commander of the army.
In the second answer about the same topic, Arruda said the question was not asked because the appointment was already of public knowledge. “We talked about various issues,” said the general, without giving details about the conversation.
On Monday (19), the first day of testimonials, part of the Supreme Ministers assessed that the prosecutor failed to counteract Freire Gomes on the coup articulations.
Instead of exploring controversies in the statement, the PGR has digressions to confirm that the army’s former chief response could be understood as narrated in the complaint.
One of these interventions occurred when the former army chief said he did not be amazed when former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) presented to the military commanders the first draft of the coup decree.
Freire Gomes said Bolsonaro presented the document as a study, based on the Constitution, and that the then president said he would return to the subject after consulting other assistants.
“I can say, then, that he was preparing the lords, with legal reasons, to present more to follow intervention measures he was already anticipating he was going to take?” Gonet asked.
Lawyer Celso Vilardi, Bolsonaro’s defender, said the question sought to direct the general’s answer. Minister Alexandre de Moraes denied the order of order, and Vilardi’s microphone was cut.
“Doctor Paulo Gonet, not necessarily,” replied the former commander. “Perhaps he presented us as a matter of consideration, since some aspects of the documents referred to Glo [Garantia da Lei e da Ordem]state of defense and state of siege “.
Moraes eventually interrupted Freire Gomes’ interrogation, under the justification that he would be changing versions, and said the general should speak the truth in court.
