Former Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira told Tuesday (10) to the (Supreme Court) that he warned the former president () about the seriousness of the decree of exception measures after the victory of (PT) in the presidential elections.
The general stated that the warning was made to Bolsonaro after the meeting on December 7, 2022, in which the former president presented a series of considerations that would support the decree of state of defense or state of siege.
“After the meeting ended, I arrived at the president, the [comandante do Exército] Freire Gomes was by my side. We warned of gravity if he was thinking of a state of defense and state of siege. It was a storm of ideas about future actions that would happen if things were ahead, “said the former minister.
Paulo Sérgio told the Supreme that he was concerned about the possible measures to be adopted by Bolsonaro. The seizure, he says, increased with the requests for military intervention in the camps in front of the barracks, with the effervescence of social media and especially with the letter of the active officers who pressured the army head to support a coup.
The former minister said that it was for this reason that he summoned the heads of the Armed Forces for a meeting on December 14, 2022 at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense. “I feared a crack. Even inside the three forces commanders I wanted a unit, preserve cohesion and discipline,” he says.
According to the general, he visited Bolsonaro the day after the meeting with the military commanders to confirm that the Armed Forces would not support a possible exception measure.
“I talked, ‘President doesn’t talk about it anymore, man.’ And I really believed. The 14th meeting was exactly to close a question and not deal with the subject anymore,” he added.
The military told the minister that he only saw a draft of the coup – on December 7, with the considers.
Paulo Sérgio Nogueira is appointed by the complaint as one of the military leaders who supported the conspiracies against Lula. The general also pressured, according to the PGR (Attorney General’s Office), the chiefs of the Armed Forces to join the scammer plans.
According to the prosecution, he would have acted to maintain the speech that the 2022 election was fraudulent and participated in discussions about the scammer draft.
The first class of the Supreme Court began on Monday (9) the stage of the interrogation of the process, when he heard Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid and former chief of Alexandre Ramagem.
Cid was the first to be heard of being a defendant. From then on, the defendants are heard in alphabetical order: (former Navy Chief), (former Justice Minister), (former GSI minister), (former Minister of Defense) and (former Minister of Civil House and Defense).
The coup plot investigations point to the former minister as one of the actors who ended up putting pressure on the Armed Forces commanders to join the coup plan to keep Bolsonaro in power.
In addition to the documents that would be the “minutes of the coup,” one of the complaint wires, the testimonials of the then Army Commanders, Freire Gomes, and the Aeronautics, Baptista Junior, point out that this draft was presented to the chiefs of the Armed Forces, seeking at least two meetings – in December 7, 2022, by Bolsonaro himself, and on December 14, by the General of Reserva Paulo himself Sergio.
The General. He was only the fourth oldest officer in the army when President and Braga Netto, then Defense Minister, decided to name him for the command of Force in April 2021.
Exactly one year after taking command of the army, Paulo Sérgio was called to lead the.
The general’s crusade against the (Superior Electoral Court) began in May 2022, when to change that year’s electoral process.
Against the way the court conducted the Transparency Commission made the relationship between the court ministers and the military.
