“Coup?” Wrong a challenging Jair Bolsonaro in the document he left on his table during The first day of interrogations in the Supreme Federal Court (STF) To the participants of the group who tried to conspire against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on January 8, 2023. The ultra -right -wing leader did not have to speak Monday. He did it Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cidhis former personal assistant, who, according to the Paulista newspaper ´Folha`, tried to minimize the existence of actions for a democratic breakdown despite having cited the participation of the former president himself in the writing of a coup draft at the end of 2022. “Publicly presented a softer interpretation of coupby emphasizing the informal nature of the meetings held, “added ´Folha`, and that was the impression that Bolsonaro himself tried to be able to read it all. four hours of interrogatorior served to confirm basic facts of the so -called “award -winning” of Cid that had been agreed last year with the accusing part.
The officer affirmed that Bolsonaro received a coup draft of his then Advisor Filipe Martins. The president, Cid said, not only read it but also made modifications to the text that in its original version contemplated the arrest “of several STF ministers” and authorities of the Legislative Power. “In a way, he (Bolsonaro) lightened him, withdrawing the prison authorities. Only you would be imprisoned “he told the judge of the highest judicial instance, Alexandre de Moraes, who questioned him. Bolsonaro professes a special corner against the magistrate.
Several analysts noted that, although CID reaffirmed the facts reported in the pact with the Attorney General’s Office tried to reduce importance to what happened when they were informal actions instead of the planned. “YONdependently of what the military might say, that would not mean that they were going to do it “he said, and spoke of the “Fanfarería” of the uniformed who discussed the possibility of a democratic break although without real intention to put into practice these actions.
In addition to Cid and Bolsonaro, they are accused in this part of the process Alexandre Ramagem, federal deputy and former head of the ABIN, Almir Garnier, former Marina, Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice, Augusto Heleno, former Minister of the GSI, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, former Minister of Defense, and Walter Braga Netto, former minister of the Civil House and Defense. The eight have been accused of the crimes of coup d’etat, attempted abolition of the Democratic State of Law, Armed Criminal Association, Qualified Damage to Public Heritage and deterioration of the declared assets of historical interest. They could receive sentences greater than 20 years.
The role of the military
The presidential ex -helpant said that the former Marina, Admiral Almir Garnier, left “Bolsonaro the troops of that institution. He said that General Estevam Theophilo, former head of the Land Operations Command and accused before the STF, told him that the Army would fulfill a coup of Bolsonaro in case the former president signed a decree for that purpose. Cid He revealed to have received from General Walter Braga Netto an amount of cash to finance a plan to monitor and capture De Moraes. He assured that the president and his defense minister expected a fraud at the electronic polls to be detected so that “something” would happen, alluding to an institutional rupture. The officer related Braga Netto with The coup camps They rose in front of several barracks. According to their testimony, these actions “always had the tacit support of the army.”
For his part, the former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) and current deputy of the Ultrade right, Alexandre Ramagem, said that the documents found on his computer with attacks on the electronic polls were private annotations and were never sent to anyone. Ramagem only took notes to “concatenate ideas.” They were “personal documents” that had no “diffusion.”
The highest expectation of the press media is related to the moment when Bolsonaro has to answer De Moraes’ questions or another judge. But before, others of the protagonists of the plot, Admiral Garnier, former Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres, who kidnapped the coup minutes and former Minister Augusto Heleno, will be interrogated before. After the state’s statement, the turn of the former defense, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and Braga Netto, currently under preventive detention will arrive.
