It decided to expel the reserve’s assault, 51, condemned by the. It is the first military man to be excluded from his career by invasing public buildings.
The expulsion was decided by a discipline council created by the Navy itself to decide on the situation of the military after his conviction in the (Federal Supreme Court) to 14 years in prison.
“We inform that the decision was made in the said Council of Discipline, in the sense of exclusion for the good of the discipline of the military of the situation of inactivity,” the Navy said in a note sent to Sheet.
The Council of Discipline is instituted to judge military personnel suspected of having committed disciplinary offenses or who have been sentenced to more than two years by the Common Justice.
Unlike conviction in the Supreme, the collegiate evaluates the rules of conduct of the military career to decide whether he is unable to remain linked to the Navy. The process lasted about 50 days.
The conclusion of the discipline board was that Caldas would need to be expelled from the Navy to maintain career discipline. A decision favorable to the Subofficial could open precedent for new breakdown of military norms.
The expulsion of the Caldas Subfficiency should be confirmed in the order of the Navy Commander. The military will be considered a “fictitious dead” – will put special arrest rights and pass his retirement to his family.
Caldas should be the first of a large list of military person close to being expelled from the Armed Forces for participation in the 2022 coup plot.
In addition to officers and squares respond to cases in the Supreme for invasion of public buildings, another 24 military personnel are defendants for participation in the attempted coup.
The list includes seven general officers and two former military chiefs-Admiral Almir Garnier Santos (Navy) and General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira (Army).
Marco Antonio Braga Caldas was a navy diver. He left the active in 2021 after about 30 years of service, and began to live in Balneário Piçarras (SC).
It arrived on the morning of January 8, 2023 on a free excursion and says you don’t know who funded the trip. His intention, he says, was to protest against the president’s election (PT) because the petista was already convicted in court for corruption.
The complaint of the (Attorney General’s Office) states that Caldas followed the Army Headquarters to the Ministries Esplanade in a walk with hundreds of former President supporters (PL).
He was arrested inside the Planalto Palace. His cell phone, seized by the Federal Police, shows photos and videos of Caldas on the ground floor and second floor of the executive headquarters.
“Say definitely not to communism. Not to the Lula and Alckmin plate. The nullity of this plate, the federal intervention,” Caldas said in one of the recordings.
At the Supreme Court hearing, Caldas’ Subofficial denied that he participated in the breaking. He said he defended a military police officer who was lynched by protesters and sought refuge in the Planalto Palace.
He was arrested from January to August 2023, already reported by PGR. Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the one, authorized his release because he considered that all evidence had been harvested, and that Caldas’ freedom was no longer a risk to investigations.
Before the trial, the military sent a letter to the court ministers citing his decades of service in his navy to defend his innocence. He said he was a “ardent defender of the Democratic Rule of Law” and that his intention was to participate in a “peaceful public manifestation, which proved to be the case.”
Caldas was arrested again in July 2024. He has been detained for 11 months at the Sailor Apprentices School in Florianópolis (SC).
He asked to be transferred to the Barra Velha Regional Prison in Santa Catarina, but the unit’s management said the site is overcrowded and is intended for provisional prisoners.
The fate of the Subofficial should be Joinville’s industrial penitentiary (SC). It is a little farther from your family than Barra Velha (SC), but closer than the Rio de Janeiro Military Prison, where it would be taken.
