Besides Bolsonaro four former ministers of his government (2018-2022), Anderson Torres, Augusto Heleno, General Walter Braga Netto and General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira are the defendants of the same process.
The date was set by the president of the first class of the Supreme Court, Cristiano Zanin.
The magistrate also decided that, if necessary, The hearings will be held on 03, 09, 10 and 12 Septemberwhen the trial will determine whether the Brazilian far-right leader will be convicted of an alleged coup attempt to remain in power after defeat in the 2022 presidential elections.
Zanin ordered the date of the oral trial at the request of the rapporteur of the case at the highest court in Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, who filed his request on Thursday, after the eight defendants delivered their final allegations.
Other defendants
Besides Bolsonaro four former ministers of his government (2018-2022), Anderson Torres, Augusto Heleno, General Walter Braga Netto and General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira are the defendants of the same process.
Also judged as part of the central core of the alleged coup plan, former Brazilian Navy commander Almir Garnier, former director of the Brazilian Information Agency (Abin) Alexandre Ramagem and Colonel Mauro Cid, former Bolsonaro’s personal advisor while occupying the Presidency of the Republic.
All defendants respond for the crimes of Coup, attempted abolition of the rule of law, armed association to commit crimes, damage to public heritage and deterioration of public heritage.
According to the accusation made by the Attorney General of the Republic of Brazil, Rodrigo Janot, Bolsonaro did not recognize the outcome of the elections and Brazil dived in a whirlwind of protests and a institutional crisis that, according to the accusation, aimed to prevent the inauguration of the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The head of the Brazilian prosecutor said that, after the failure of the initial plans, the Defendants would have urged the attack on Brasilia on January 8, 2023a week after the inauguration of Lula da Silva, when thousands of ‘pockets’ invaded and vandalized at the headquarters of the three powers.
Bolsonaro rejects accusations
In the final allegations, Bolsonaro categorically rejected all accusations through his lawyers, who They asked the court to acquit him.
The defense of the former president claimed that there is a lack of absolute evidence, denied his participation in a coup plan and described the accusations of the prosecutor’s office as “Absurd”.
The criminal case against the leader of the Brazilian far-right triggered a diplomatic and commercial conflict between Brazil and the United States, whose president, Donald Trump, applied 50% of tariffs to Brazilian products in retaliation against a trial that considers “unfair” and the product of “political persecution”.
On Thursday, Trump reiterated his conviction that “it is a political execution what they are trying to do with Bolsonaro” and described as “terrible” what is happening to who he has defined as one of the great leaders of the right in Latin America.
