The first class of the Federal Supreme Court resumed at 2:16 pm on Tuesday, 2, the trial of the criminal action on the attempted coup d’état, which may condemn former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his former auxiliary. The expectation is that the session will be taken by the manifestations of the defendants’ defenses.
The first pronouncement will be made by lawyer Cezar Bittencourt, who represents Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, former orders of orders from former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Cid is a whistleblower and so his defense manifests himself before the other defendants of the action. Each defense will have an hour to present their arguments.
The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) claims that Cid was a key player in an attempt to coup and that his strategic position as a “man closest to the President of the Republic” was fundamental to enable, in practice, the objectives of the criminal organization.
“In addition to taking care of the bureaucracy of day to day, behind the scenes, sewed meetings and deciphered presidential intentions accurately for the achievement of the purposes of the criminal organization,” the accusation says.
The first class began on Tuesday to the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and seven former auxilizers nearby. The group is accused by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) of leading the articulation by a coup between 2021 and 2023. At this time, the first class judges only the first nucleus, the so-called “crucial core” of the coup plot.
The defendants are responsible for attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup d’état, participation in armed criminal organization, qualified damage and deterioration of listed heritage. The penalties, added, can reach 43 years.
