Lawyers who spoke to the first class of the (Supreme Federal Court) on Wednesday (3) stated that there is no evidence that their clients participated in one after the president’s victory in the 2022 elections.
Four defenses positioned themselves on the second day of the coup plot trial, including the former president () and that of the general, pointed out by the (Attorney General’s Office) as leaders of a possible criminal organization.
Both Bolsonaro and Braga Netto’s defense used part of his manifestation time to attack Lieutenant Colonel’s denunciation, which was a helper of orders from the Presidency of the Republic.
Celso Vilardi, who advocates for Bolsonaro, also sought to unlink the former president of the Murder Plan of authorities appointed by PGR and the depredation of the three powers buildings on January 8, 2023.
“The president did not attack the Democratic Rule of Law,” said Vilardi. According to him, the investigation linked without Bolsonaro evidence to the profusion of documents and attacks on January 8, which called “tragic episode.”
“And the president, whom I am representing, was dredged for these facts,” he added.
In addition to the defenses of Bolsonaro and Braga Netto, the lawyers of generals and former ministers Augusto Heleno (Institutional Security Office) and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira (Defense) were also spoken out.
Both tried Bolsonaro.
Matheus Milanez, who defends Heleno, said the general was removed from the then president and military accused of plotting a coup in the final period of the government, especially after the former president’s affiliation of the PL.
Andrew Fernandes, on the other hand, said the former minister “was cracked with active generals, with General Braga Netto, who did not want to talk to loose generals and watermelons [vistos como próximos à esquerda]”. He also said that the general tried Demover Bolsonaro to carry on a coup plot.
The main questions to Mauro Cid’s denunciation came from José Luís de Oliveira Lima, Juca, lawyer of Braga Netto.
He said that there are at least three points to attest to the argument: the fact that the terms of collaboration were signed with the Federal Police without the consent of the presentation of corroboration evidence and the evidence that, according to him, Lieutenant Colonel was coerced.
“Fifteen months after the first testimonial he gave, the collaborating defendant brings a simple detail: the delivery of money to finance a plan to be aware of the Democratic Rule of Law,” said Juca.
At the time, Cid stated that Braga Netto delivered money in kind, stored in a box of wine, to the coup plan.
The lawyer said there is no credibility in the testimony. “It’s reasonable to think that a whistleblower takes 15 months to bring these facts to the authorities? It’s a scandal for forgetting this detail. We’re not talking about clock, a clock, an earring. We’re talking about the delivery of money to finance a coup d’état.”
Juca and Heleno’s lawyer, Milanez, also questioned the stance of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case, in conducting the case.
Heleno’s defense surveyed how many questions the rapporteur and the PGR did each one during the process instruction: 302 of Moraes and 59 of Gonet. According to Milanez, this would be representative of Moraes’s accusatory stance.
“One of the endorsed witnesses, Mr. Evaldo de Oliveira Aires, was asked by the rapporteur minister about his publication on social networks that are not in the case.
“Why has the prosecutor who did not do this? What is the role of the judge? Or is the inquisitor judge? The judge cannot under any circumstances become the protagonist of the case,” he said.
This Wednesday’s demonstrations in front of the ministers before the presentation of the magistrates’ votes in the action.
The trial on the central core of the coup plot is expected to last until September 12. The inaugural vote of Moraes should only happen next Tuesday (9).
On the first day of trial, the session was marked by reinforcing the accusations made in the complaint of the Attorney General, and the transmission of messages by Minister Moraes.
Rapporteur of the process, he opened the session by stating that the goal of pacifying the country depends on respect for the constitution and the application of laws, “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.
The former president was accused by the PGR of committing crimes of 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 overturned heritage and participation in a criminal organization.
