One of the videos released on Tuesday (3) by the (Federal Supreme Court) shows the moment when confirms him that the former president () was reported about his possible arrest case.
The warning would have been made by the then army commander, according to the brigadeiro testimony.
“Freire Gomes is a polite and polite person, did not speak with aggressiveness, he would not do that. But that is what he said. With great peace, calm, but put exactly that. ‘If I do that, I will have to arrest you,'” he told the Supreme.
General Freire Gomes denied, in a statement to the, that he gave Bolsonaro prison. He said only that he warned the former president about a possible legal liability if he adopted any illegal measure.
Baptista Júnior gave testimony to the Supreme Court on May 21. He was nominated as a witness to the prosecution. The military’s answers were considered by Supreme Ministers to be the most enlightening about Bolsonaro’s coup intentions and their surroundings at the end of 2022.
The brigadeiro said he realized that Bolsonaro evaluated measures to avoid Lula’s inauguration on November 11, 2022. Baptista Júnior said that the former president argued with the heads of the forces, shortly after the end of the presidential election, the decree of GLO (guarantee of the law and order), state of defense or state state.
The military believed that the measures aimed to contain the obstruction of the federal highways – from the led by truckers – or to avoid political violence with the climbing of tensions.
He realized, however, that the discussions had another backdrop. “At one point, I personally started to understand that that GLO that we were approaching was not what I was used to doing since 1992. And I started to get uncomfortable,” he said.
