Bolsonaro’s first day of judgment. “I wasn’t crying,” says Lula

On the first day of the trial of alleged attempted coup in Brazil ended, the defenses of several defendants asked the acquittal of their clients. Lula da Silva asks justice to be done, with presumption of innocence, and points out that when he was judged he was not crying: “I went to the fight”

In the afternoon, the first defense team to make the oral presentation was that of Mauro Cidformer advisor to former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonarowhich defended the acquittal of his client and stressed that this was fundamental for the investigation by giving solid “extreme relevance” clues to the coup process.

“If Mauro Cid had not said that the regards were discussed with the commanders, Maybe no one knew“, Defended lawyer Jair Alves Pereira.

As Mauro Cid’s revelations were fundamental to set up the complaint against Bolsonaro and other defendants of his summit that face possible prison sentences More than 40 years.

The former advisor stated that The former Brazilian president received, read and modified a Decree to declare the state of siegereverse the electoral victory of Lula da Silva and arrest a series of authoritiesamong them some judges of the Supreme.

The lawyers of the federal deputy and former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, Alexandre Ramagemthe Admiral ALMIR GARNIER SANTOSformer Navy Commander, the former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres.

“Alexandre Ramagem did not act to guide the presidenthe was not an essayist of Jair Messias Bolsonaro, ”said Alexandre Ramagem’s lawyer, who denied that his client commanded a espionage scheme during Bolsonaro’s government to disseminate false information on the regularity of the 2022 electoral process.

In the case of former Navy Commander Almir Garnier, whose accusation believes he gave support and military guarantees in the plan to prevent possession From Lula da Silva, his defense categorically denied the accusations.

The last oral presentation was the defense of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, accused of keep a one -draft document of coup d’état and to collaborate with what the accusation nicknamed “Criminasa”.

The accusations were promptly deniedwith the defense to consider that the prosecutor’s narrative “that he would have conspired, participated in a macabre coup plotdon’t walk with the truth. ”

This Wednesday, the other defendants should be heard: Jair Bolsonarothe General in Reserve and former Chief of the Presidency Institutional Security Office Augusto Helenothe General and former Minister of Defense Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and the General in Reserve and former Minister of the Civil House Walter Braga Neto.

At the opening of the trial, the Attorney General of the Brazilian Republic stated that the former president and his summit are responsible for Plan a coup d’etat and that “Everyone converged” to ensure the permanence of Jair Bolsonaro I cannot.

Second Paulo GoneT, “everyone converged, within their 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 they did not win the elections, and even after actually lost the preference of voters in 2022.”

Finished Wednesday’s session, next week, the vote on five judges that make up the first class of the Federal Supreme Court. The decision for acquittal or conviction will be taken by majority.

Lula expects “justice to be done”

The Brazilian president, Lula da Silvasaid this Tuesday expect that “justice” will be done in the trial in which Jair Bolsonaro is cornered by coup, but that the “Right of the Presumption of InceptionA ”of the defendants.

“That justice is donerespecting the right to the presumption of Incenciajust that. I wish for me and any enemy of mine The right to presumption of innocenceso that they know the truth, ”said the Brazilian head of state, quoted by the local press, on the sidelines of the journalist’s wake Mino Carta.

“If it is innocent, prove that it is innocent. Prove it is innocent, that it has nothing to do with it, ”he said. The Brazilian head of state also said that this trial It is not directed to “no one personally“, But” according to the case file. “

In alluding to his personal case, Lula da Silva, who was arrested in the Lava Jato process, added: “He can defend himself as I could not defend me. I I didn’t complain, I wasn’t crying, I went to the fight“.

Lula da Silva was under the call Operation Lava Jetone of the largest investigations of corruption and money laundering in Brazil’s history.

The Brazilian president served at the time 580 days in prison. In 2019, he was released by the Federal Supreme Court, which in 2021 of Lula da Silva. The STF considered that the Curutiba Court had no jurisdiction to judge the case, and that the Judge Sérgio Moro had been partial.