The Federal Supreme Court (STF) consolidated the rank of the coup’s criminal actions and established this Friday, 15, composed of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and the other seven defendants.
The accused will begin to be tried on September 2 in the first class of the court. The forecast is that the analysis will be completed by the 12th of next month. The dates were set to avoid the risk of judgment to advance to the 2026 election year in the event of a request for a view.
The extraordinary sessions were scheduled for the 2, 3, 9, 10 and 12 September. Initially, Ministers agreed that the five Tuesdays of September would be reserved, which would take the trial until the 30th.
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The dates were defined yesterday by Minister Cristiano Zanin, president of the first class, after the case was released for trial by Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur of the case.
Behind the scenes of the Supreme Court, the possibility of Luiz Fux was evaluated to ask for a view. The interlocutors, the minister denied this intention. Still, to make a hedge -a kind of insurance -it was chosen to anticipate the end of the trial.
This is because, according to the Court’s Internal Regulations, the deadline for return of a request for a view is up to 90 days. Therefore, if there were seen from September 22, it could only be returned in February, because the deadline would end during the recess of the court, which starts on December 20 and runs until February 2, 2026.
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Most STF ministers find it important to close the trial later this year, so that the criminal subject splashes as little as possible in the 2026 electoral process. The Court may call new sessions throughout September to examine the process if scheduled dates were not enough to complete discussions.
The process proceedings follows an agile rhythm. The criminal action dealing with the “crucial core”-as defined by the report of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR)-was established on March 26 this year, when Bolsonaro and seven other accused of the crucial core saw defendants.
In addition to Bolsonaro, generals Walter Braga Netto (former Minister of Defense and Civil House), Augusto Heleno (former GSI), Paulo Sérgio Nogueira (former Minister of Defense), Admiral Almir Garnier (former Navy Commander), Lieutenant Coronel Mauro Cid (former PL Alexandre Orders), the former commander of the Navy), Lieutenant Coronel Cid. Ramagem (former director of Abin), and Anderson Torres (former Minister of Justice).
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The Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, defends the conviction of the seven defendants for all the crimes listed in the complaint-attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup, armed criminal organization, damage qualified by violence and severe threat and deterioration of overturned assets.
The collegiate also comprises the ministers Flávio Dino, Luiz Fux and Cármen Lúcia.
Special operation
The decision of the collegiate to set up a special operation for the trial, with additional and consecutive sessions throughout September, repeats what occurred when receiving the complaint. Normally, STF classes meet biweekly, but the schedule can be alternated depending on the agenda. On all dates, the sessions will be held from 9am to 12pm. On days 2, 9 and 12 there will also be sessions from 14h to 19h. New sessions can be scheduled if the trial is not completed by the reserved final date.
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The defendants ended up sending the last arguments on Wednesday. The defenses called for acquittal for procedural reasons and lack of evidence. With this, the so -called “instructional phase” of the process was completed, paving the way for judgment. During the instruction, witnesses and defendants were heard, including in trading to confront their versions.
Defenses
Between qualifying the accusation as “absurd”, minimizing participation in the coup plot and even stating that it acted against the conspiracy, all defendants in the so -called “crucial nucleus” that respond to the criminal action of the coup requested acquittal in the case for procedural reasons and lack of evidence. Bolsonaro, appointed by the PGR as leader of the criminal organization, is accused of five crimes that, added, can yield 43 years in prison, if the maximum penalties and aggravating features of each of them.
The former president’s lawyers called “absurd” the complaint and ask for his acquittal on the grounds that there is no evidence, including to attach it to the coup act of 8 and the “green and yellow dagger” plan, which provided for the murder of Brazilian authorities. In the end, they also require the trial to be impartial.
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The defense says the process is “as historical as it is unusual” and describes a picture in which Bolsonaro is the victim of a press “massacre”, making it implicit that he would be the victim of prior trial by the media.
The information is from the newspaper The State of S. Paulo.
