Lieutenant Colonel told (9) to the Federal Supreme Court that General Estevam Theophilo, former chief of the land operations command, told him that the army would comply with a coup order of (PL) if the former president signed a decree with the determinations.
This is the first time Cid says he has talked directly to Theophilo about the coup plot. The general is defendant in the Supreme for alleged support for the attempted coup.
“As much as some generals from the Army High Command agreed or had the idea of how the electoral process was conducted, they would do nothing that broke the link of legality. For something to be done, it would have to have an order, and that order would have to come from the president,” said Cid.
Lieutenant Colonel stated that General Theophilo-at the time, a member of the Army’s top-confirmed: “[Ele disse]: ‘If the president signs, the army will fulfill.’ Not that he was the one who was going to fulfill, but the army. “
Cid said he got the information from Theophilo himself from an “informal chat between entrance and his departure from dawn.” Lieutenant Colonel says, however, that he does not know what was treated between the general and former President Jair Bolsonaro on December 9, 2022.
The first class of the Supreme Court began this Monday to the testimony phase of the defendants of the process about the coup plot of 2022. Mauro Cid is the first to speak.
General Estevam Theophilo was named by members of the Army High Command as one of the members of the Force Summit most aligned with the former president’s scammers, according to three generals heard by Sheet.
The Federal Police had one that the general would have prepared an operational plan to comply with any orders that the former president determine in the coup decree, such as the intervention in the (Superior Electoral Court) and the arrest of ministers.
The Calculation of the PF, however, was unable to advance in this hypothesis even with the seizure of the cell phone and other items at the General’s house in February 2024.
