The defense of (PL) intends to ask on Wednesday (3), on the second day of the judgment of the central nucleus of the coup plot, the acquittal of the former president to the ministers of the first class of (Supreme Federal Court).
After the Attorney General’s Office) to speak in favor of the former president’s conviction that Bolsonaro’s lawyers will have an hour to counter the accusations.
The legal team of the former president, led by lawyer Celso Vilardi, was due in August, when he said that the PGR accusation of the coup plot is absurd and mixes events to get a conviction without evidence.
“There is no way to condemn Jair Bolsonaro based on the evidence produced in the case file, which unfortunately demonstrated that he determined the transition, avoided chaos with truckers and attested to his voters that the world would not end on December 31, that the people would realize that the new government would not do well to the country,” the defense said in the demonstration.
Bolsonaro’s defense will be the second to speak on Wednesday, after the speech of the lawyers of General Augusto Heleno (former Minister of the Institutional Security Office). The demonstrations of the defenses of generals Paulo Sérgio Nogueira (former Minister of Defense) and Braga Netto (former Minister of Defense and the Civil House) are still foreseen.
Bolsonaro’s lawyers also stated, in the final allegations, that the Federal Police were unable to find documents that were dealing with an attempted coup d’état, and that they are only reported by the whistleblower, former Bolsonaro orders.
The former president should not meet the judgment in the Supreme Court in person. Bolsonaro’s lawyers and were therefore advised against going to court. He has faced.
Like the other defendants, Bolsonaro can attend the court to attend the trial. As it is under house arrest, it will have to request authorization from the Rapporteur Minister to go to the Court, as determined by the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The trial on the central core of the coup plot is expected to last until September 12. The first vote, should only happen next Tuesday (9).
On the first day of trial, the session made in the complaint of the Attorney General, and for the transmission of messages by Minister Moraes.
Process rapporteur, he opened the session, “there is no possibility of confusing the healthy and necessary pacification with the cowardice of appeasement.”
PGR’s complaint is judged by nuclei, and what Bolsonaro involves is considered the most important of them.
In presenting the final allegations in the process in July, he said that “all the characters in the process in which the coup attempt unfolded are responsible for the events that concatenate each other.”
The former president was attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against the union’s assets, the deterioration of listed heritage and participation in a criminal organization.
In the presidency of the Republic, Bolsonaro accumulated a series of coup statements, caused crises between the powers, in check the realization of the 2022 elections, threatened not to comply with STF decisions and encouraged a campaign to discredit the country’s electoral system.
After the defeat to Lula, he encouraged the creation and maintenance of the scammers who spread across the country and gave rise to the attacks of January 8.
In this same period, he adopted conduct that contributed to his hopeful supporters that he would remain in power and, as he himself publicly admitted, met with nearby military and advisers to discuss ways to intervene in and nullify the elections.
