The defendants of the central core of the coup plot arrive at the trial that begins on Tuesday (2) with the task of giving more convincing explanations about crucial points for the prosecution. The so-called “” according to the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic), materiality to the supposed plan ongoing and is decisive for most of the main names involved in the case.
Discredit to the polls, the scammers of each defendant manifested in Lives, meetings, messages and reported by witnesses, and the planning and financing of violent actions, such as the plan to kill authorities, will also demand new effort from lawyers to try to convince first class members to relieve for their clients.
Throughout the process, the defenses presented strategies against the prosecution, focusing mainly on questioning the conduct of the case. Lawyers tried to file the investigation due to alleged procedural illegalities and defense curtailment, as well as alleging a lack of.
Some of the most emblematic issues and left open by the defenses, however, should be debated again in the plenary of the (Supreme Court), as the most prominent points on the part of criminal imputations.
As a first military whistleblower of the country’s history, it will have to explain notes of both the (Attorney General’s Office) and the defenses of the other defendants, who target it in an attempt to deconstruct the accusation.
The former president (), as the main character of the episode, is responsible for the leadership of the attempted democratic rupture. He explores, in defense, the precariousness of indications of direct involvement of him in the attacks of January 8, 2023 and in the making and execution of the alleged murder plan of authorities.
The “scam draft” is. The defense claims that the “text with the such propaganded arrests of the STF ministers” or the text that provided for the arrest of Moraes was never found in the file. It argues that PGR is based on “narratives” rather than evidence.
The PGR opposes that the collaboration of CID and other testimonials confirm the existence and discussion of these documents and Bolsonaro’s participation even in textual adjustments. The defense argues that the lack of header, closing or signature disqualifies the document, but for the PGR this is characteristic of a draft and does not diminish its relevance or purpose.
In testimony, the then Army Commanders, Freire Gomes, and Aeronautics, Baptista Junior, maintain that this draft was presented to the heads of the Armed Forces, seeking adhesion.
Finally, Bolsonaro’s defense also states that if the ministers understand that the actions judged were not only preparatory acts-legal classification that does not predict punishment-that they consider that the former president has back in the coup idea.
“In the worst scenario, if the imputed facts are interpreted as the beginning of execution, then there is no way to ignore that the former president effectively gave up, at his own desire, to go forward with the alleged plan that configures the baricenter of the prosecution,” said the lawyers.
The debate about the validity of the draft is also interested in, as a version was found in his house. According to the defense, the text was one of the roles received in the ministry routine and had current content in society at the time and should go to trash.
Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, Bolsonaro Defense Minister, should also explain the connection with the document. According to testimonials, it was up to him to present a version on December 14, 2022 to the commanders of the forces.
For Braga Netto, it will be important to pacify the alleged to the former Bolsonaro orders for military coup actions.
As on other parts of the accusation, the general’s defense points to the whistleblower’s contradictions. In the interrogation phase, lawyer José Luis Oliveira Lima asked Cid if he had seen the contents of the wine bag that would have been used.
The answer was negative. The military said he did not remember important details, such as day, time and place where the money would have been delivered. At this point, therefore, both will have to give new explanations.
PGR stated that Braga Netto’s allegation of not having delivered money is “denied by the mere fact that the action was executed by the military, who made the expenses provided for in the planning phase”, and that “none of the conversations analyzed by the police authority is indicative that the resources have come from another source that not made available by the General.”
Braga Netto and Cid’s testimonials also differ on the meeting of November 12, 2022, an important milestone for the accusation narrative.
The meeting held at the General’s house, with Cid and Rafael Martins de Oliveira and Hélio Ferreira Lima, would have had the objective of discussing clandestine actions of the “Copa 2022”.
PGR connects the meeting to subsequent actions, such as increasing Moraes monitoring, and sees Braga Netto’s absence in a Bolsonaro video conferencing at the same time as proof of his involvement, indicating that he was “completely immersed in the execution of actions aimed at implementing the coup.”
Braga Netto argues that the meeting was a “simple courtesy visit”. Still, that Cid changed versions and lied throughout the process about the meeting and its early departure.
Also, according to the prosecution, Anderson Torres sought to “mobilize the other ministers of state in favor of the well -known narrative of electoral fraud”. Compared to January 8, Torres would have “deliberately displeased the duty imposed on him from preventing barbarities” in a “deliberate strategy of removal and connivance with the approaching violent actions.”
