The minister asked on Thursday (14) to the president of the first class of (Supreme Federal Court), the minister, set a date for the judgment of the central core of the coup plot-who has the former president () as one of the defendants.
The request was made the day after the deadline for the defendants’ defenses to present their own.
“Considering the regular termination of the procedural instruction, the fulfillment of all complementary steps granted, as well as the presentation of final allegations by the Attorney General’s Office and all defendants, I ask the Honorable President of the First Class, Minister Cristiano Zanin, days for the present trial of this criminal action,” says Moraes in the order.
Zanin has not yet decided when the trial should occur. The expectation in the Supreme is that the analysis of the prosecution will be made in September.
The central core of the coup plot is made up of Jair Bolsonaro, former Navy Commander Almir Garnier, former Justice Minister, former Chief of Lieutenant Colonel, former Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and former Chief of the Civil House. The Federal Deputy (PL-RJ) is also part of the group, but the case against him was partially paralyzed by determination of the Chamber.
In his final allegations, Bolsonaro’s defense told the Supreme Court that the prosecution (Attorney General’s Office) of the coup plot is absurd and mixes events to get a conviction without proof.
“There is no way to condemn Jair Bolsonaro based on the evidence produced in the case file, which unfortunately demonstrated that he determined the transition, avoided chaos with truckers and attested to his voters that the world would not end on December 31, that the people would realize that the new government would not do well to the country,” he says.
The defense says that the Federal Police could not find the alleged scammer minutes even though they seized hundreds of cell phones and computers.
In the lawyers’ version, the documents dealing with the attempted coup d’état are only reported by whistleblower Mauro Cid, former Bolsonaro orders.
“The failure in the accusation is profound. It uncovers that this narrative about a decree with diverse prisons existed only in the non-corroborated word of the whistleblower, and displays the emptiness of the presumption that the minutes would have been changed by the former president,” he says.
The team led by lawyer Celso Vilardi argues that the lack of documents in the prosecution of PGR is “also the lack of proof of its change.”
“The mantra of this process already comes here: no one saw, no witness, not even the whistleblower. After all, there is not the alleged draft decree in the file with a ‘wicked’ text providing only the arrest of Minister Alexandre de Moraes,” he adds.