Jair Bolsonaro’s defense was surprised for the closing of the allegation in which he has claimed the judges of the Supreme Court on Wednesday to acquit him from. One of his lawyers has taken the famous Case Dreyfus – In reference to the erroneous accusation of a Jewish military for espionage in the France of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – to emphasize that “there is no single test” that incriminates the former captain of the Brazilian army in the conspiracy of which the Prosecutor’s Office accuses him. The president, who faces a penalty that exceeds 40, has preferred to continue from his home. Next week, on Tuesday 9, the judges will begin to cast their votes in favor of the conviction or acquittal and, as it is broadcast live, the world will attend the elaboration of the verdict.
Two lawyers have distributed the time awarded to the defense of Bolsonaro, which considers this process a political persecution. He and the other seven defendants proclaim his innocence. “The president did not attempt against the democratic state of law, there is not a single evidence,” said the first lawyer before attacking the main incriminating testimony. The confession of Mauro Cid, the then personal secretary of the former president, had many versions, “up to 16,” he said.
He has also argued that the speed of the judicial process has prevented them from analyzing (70 Terabytes, he said), which restricts the right to defense of his client. Argument wielded by the rest of the accused. And he has disconnected Bolsonaro from both the magnicide plans and the assault on the venues of the three powers. He also stressed that as outgoing president to the incoming government, that of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro’s second lawyer has taken advantage of Case Dreyfus When the clock in the room marked the final minutes of his speech. After emphasizing the transcendence of the case, he has warned that, without solid evidence, the ruling will be fragile and will be “submitted forever to the people’s court.” At that time he has resorted to France from the beginning of the XX. “We do not allow to create a Brazilian version of the Dreyfus Case ”. “The acquittal for the former president is imperative,” he has proclaimed.
Bolsonaro will not go to any of the remaining three sessions, according to his lawyers, reports Reuters. He is not obliged to go. In the first session he alleged health reasons to follow him from home, where he is in house prison. The leader of the Brazilian right is tried for five crimes, including coup d’etat and damage to the heritage, along with seven narrow collaborators of his presidential mandate. “Three generals and an admiral, who according to the accusation urged a plot so that the ultra -rightist remained illegally in power after losing the elections.
The meeting that the then president held with the Minister of Defense and with the leaders of the Army and Aeronautics on December 7, 2022 is one of the episodes in which Bolsonaro’s lawyers have arrested the most. His defense has insisted that the exception measures raised by his client to the military bosses, including the state of siege, are measures contemplated by the Constitution and that, in addition, he did not even try to materialize them. They have also argued that, in Brazilian legislation, the preparations for a blow would only be a crime when they imply violence or serious threats.
General Walter Braga Netto’s lawyer, who was a minister and candidate for vice president, has claimed that the trial be annulled because “the right to defense was severed” due to the lack of time to analyze the evidence. The Supreme Court has hurried with this case because it wants to leave it resolved before 2026, which is an electoral year. Everything seems to indicate that Bolsonaro.
His firstborn, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, said in X that “the accusations against the main leader of the right -wing opposition in Brazil cannot be based on inventions and lies.”
When on Wednesday the allegations of the defenses of the eight defendants conclude, this final phase of trial takes a break until next week. Sunday will be an occasion to measure the temperature of the streets in the midst of the historic trial. Brazil celebrates the 203rd anniversary of its independence this Sunday. The Government will commemorate it with an official parade in Brasilia chaired by Lula, while Bolsonarism has called concentrations throughout the country in defense of freedom of expression. To the call of the former president’s followers, the leaders of evangelical churches have joined, who have called their faithful to mobilize for that and a second cause: religious freedom.
