The accusation believes that Paulo Sérgio Nogueira discussed and helped to elaborate measures to avoid the inauguration of the current Brazilian president, Lula da Silva
The lawyer of the former Brazilian Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira admitted on Wednesday the existence of a plan for a coup, but said that his client tried to demote former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, to move forward.
He actively served to demoid the former President of the Republic of any measure in this regard, “said Andrew Fernandes, in the first class of the Supreme Federal Court, in Brasilia, at the session where the five judges hear the last four defendants’ defenses.
The accusation believes that Paulo Sérgio Nogueira discussed and helped to elaborate measures to avoid the inauguration of the now Brazilian president, Lula da Silva.
“He was not part of this criminal organization,” said the lawyer.
Andrew Fernandes also said that the denunciation and testimony of the main witness of the prosecution, the Air Force commander, Brigadier Batista Junior, “is blunt” in this sense.
The lawyer said that Brigadier Batista Júnior stated in court that General Paulo Sérgio “acted to demoid the president of ‘Impurse’, to walk through any exception measure,”,
In this sense, he requested the acquittal of General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira.
The trial of the former president of Brazil was resumed on Wednesday, with the submission of the allegations of the last four defendants: Jair Bolsonaro, the general reserve general and former chief of the Institutional Security Office of the Presidency of the Republic Augusto Heleno, the general minister and former minister of reserve and former minister Walter Braga Neto.
On Tuesday, the first day of the trial, the attorney general, Paulo Gonet, said that “everyone converged, within his space of action, to the common goal of ensuring the permanence of the President of the Republic at the time in the conduct of the state, even if he did not win the elections, and even after having actually lost the preference of voters in 2022”.
The defense lawyers were also heard on Tuesday of three defendants from the Bolsonaro nucleus.
Bolsonaro, in house arrest for attempts to obstruct the court action, claimed health reasons not to participate in person in the trial.
After Wednesday’s session, next week follows (September 09, 10 and 12) the vote of the five judges that make up the first class of the Supreme Federal Court.
The decision for acquittal or conviction will be made by a majority of votes.
This group called “core 1” or “crucial core” is responsible for attempted violent abolition of the rule of democratic law, attempted coup, participation in armed criminal organization, qualified damage and deterioration of heritage.
