Lawyer Celso Vilardi chose on Wednesday (3) three points to base: the authorities’ murder plan, known as “Yellow Green Dagger”, the attacks of January 8, 2023, and the so-called “Cap draft”.
Compared to the first two, he explored the fact that the investigations of the Federal Police and the accusation of the Attorney General’s Office gathered evidence, but not pointed out direct link of knowledge and participation of the then President of the Republic. About the third, he tried to fit him in the same category as previous ones, but then the story is different.
Starting with the first two points.
The PF obtained evidence that the “” was created on the computer of the Mario Fernandes Reserve General, then number 2 of the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The file listed steps, weapons and personnel necessary to murder Alexandre de Moraes (rapporteur of the current trial, not nominally cited) ,.
This last character was not identified by the PF in the report that approached the operation, but, as shown in Sheetit was about.
The connection to Bolsonaro is due to the fact that, on November 9, 2022, 40 minutes after this document was printed at the Planalto Palace, Fernandes went to the palace of Alvorada, official residence of the President of the Republic.
On December 9, a day after he was in dawn, the general also sent a message to Cid reporting that Bolsonaro had accepted “our advice.”
On the same day, Bolsonaro Elections and, the supporters in the dawn, said that it is the people “who decides where the Armed Forces goes.”
Despite the evidence, there is no other element in the report confirming that the document was discussed with Bolsonaro. The former president has always denied science of this plan, although the PGR, in the complaint, said that he did not only know but authorized the contract.
“There is no single proof that links the president to the green and yellow dagger, operation scope [outro plano golpista] and January 8th. Not even the whistleblower [Mauro Cid]that I support that lied against the President of the Republic, nor did he even say the participation of daggers, a scope, pantry [que integraria o plano Punhal] and January 8th. There is no single proof, “said Vilardi.
The attorney general describes in the complaint the attack on the headquarters of the three powers as the apex of the coup plot “constituted since at least June 29, 2021 and operating until January 8, 2023”.
Appointed as leader of this organization, Bolsonaro would have created these episodes, including leniency with scammer camps in front of the Army HQ, the environment of distrust and instability necessary for the attack.
“The progressive and coordinated actions of the criminal organization culminated on January 8, 2023, the final act aimed at the deposition of the elected government and the abolition of democratic structures. The accused programmed this violent social action with the aim of forcing the intervention of the Armed Forces and justifying a state of exception,” wrote the prosecutor.
In relation to the scam minutes, the participation gains more concrete contours.
Vilardi tried on Wednesday to give the impression that the discussions to avoid Lula’s possession boiled down to a meeting and that everything else is nothing more than Mauro Cid’s lying statements.
“This is the epicenter, the touch stone of the process. [de Cid]. (…) If the accusation is to take the draft to the army commanders and they did not support and therefore there was no blow, what happened on December 15? Where is January 8? “
Shemaled with, the draft had.
In short, he established measures to nullify the outcome of Lula’s election and keep Bolsonaro in power.
In search of support for the endeavor, the then president presented a version of this document to the heads of the Armed Forces on December 7, 2022, according to several testimonies, and possibly to General Estevam Theophilo, commander of land operations of the Army two days later on December 9.
The coup document was still an object of a new meeting with the commanders of Navy, Army and Aeronautics, this time conducted by the Defense Minister, the reserve general Paulo Sérgio, on December 14.
General Freire Gomes (Army) and Brigadier Carlos de Almeida Baptista Junior (Aeronautics) would not have nullified with the coup, unlike Admiral Almir Garnier Santos (Marinha), who today is part of the group of defendants being tried.
The evidence presented are not limited to the versions of the seized documents, but also anchor in the testimonials of Freire Gomes, Baptista Junior and Mauro Cid, as well as seized messages that deal with this discussion and also indicate that the commanders of the Army and Air Force became targets of attacks on the networks for not agreeing with the coup plan.
Given the evidence, Bolsonaro himself acknowledged that he studied “within the four lines of the Constitution” – he did not explain why he was considering them without a situation of relevant abnormality that justified them.
