The generals and former ministers and reach the final stretch of the trial of the coup plot in the (Supreme Court) with a more favorable situation than at the beginning of the main figure the former president (PL).
The evaluation by two Supreme Ministers and lawyers heard by Sheet It is that the ones were more fragile compared to those of the other defendants.
Already Paulo Sérgio received and changed the course of his defense throughout the process, but still weighs against him the (Superior Electoral Court) during the electoral process of 2022.
The fate of the two will be known next Friday (12), when the first class of the Supreme should end the trial and define the sentence of the eight defendants of the coup plot.
In addition to Heleno, Bolsonaro and Paulo Sérgio, they are denounced in the case (former director of Abin, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency) (former Navy Commander) (former Justice Minister), (former ordinant of orders) and (former Minister of the Civil House).
Augusto Heleno was Minister of the Institutional Security Office during the Bolsonaro government (2019-2022). He is accused by the PGR of building the former president’s narrative against the electronic ballot boxes.
The main evidence presented by the Attorney’s Office is notes in a Heleno notebook that was seized by the Federal Police. The general’s manuscripts indicated the importance of “continuing to criticize the electronic ballot box.”
Lawyer Matheus Milanez argues that the evidence is fragile to condemn the former minister. He says the investigation could not say the date the annotation was made nor took into account other excerpts from the same notebook-as one in which the covid-19 is.
The focus of Heleno’s defense is to show that the general departed from the Bolsonaro government’s decision center in 2021, when the then president allied himself with the center’s parties and made room for new governors on the Plateau.
“When President Bolsonaro approaches the center’s parties and has its affiliation with the PL, it begins a removal from the dome of power. Of course there was no 100%removal. But there was this decrease,” Milanez said.
Heleno’s defense criticized the Federal Police for “selecting the finger” pages of a decontextualized notebook without additional evidence to accuse the general.
“Why the Federal Police, together with the Public Prosecution Service, did not bring the conversations of General Heleno that [provam que ele] Would you be together in the coup plot? Because there is no, excellence. Paper accepts everything, “added the lawyer.
A Supreme Minister said, under reserve, that Heleno’s removal thesis is a relevant issue to understand the role of the general in the coup plot. Another member of the court told the Sheet that an eventual acquittal of the former minister may serve as a displeasure at.
Former Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira has changed strategy throughout the process. In the prior defense, lawyer Andrew Fernandes devoted a small part of the document to deal with the merits of the prosecution.
During the testimonies of the witnesses and the defendants themselves, Fernandes was redirecting the defense of Paulo Sérgio. He was trying to show that the former defense minister disagreed with the scammer plans suggested by Bolsonaro-posing alongside former Baptista Junior (Aeronautics) and Freire Gomes (Army) commanders.
Baptista Júnior said in a statement that Paulo Sérgio tried to convince Bolsonaro not to strike. “From these meetings, I have a very passive view of Admiral Garnier. I remember Paulo Sérgio, Freire Gomes and I talked more, we discussed more, we tried to demoid the president,” he said.
Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid followed the same line. In his denunciation, he says that Paulo Sérgio was part of the same group of General Freire Gomes. According to the whistleblower, they understood that “nothing could be done in the face of the outcome of the elections, that anything in another sense would be an armed blow.”
Based on the testimonials, Andrew wrote in his final allegations the word “demover” 21 times – they all in the sense that Paulo Sérgio has acted for Bolsonaro not to advance with scammer plans.
In oral support to the Supreme, the lawyer said that the main evidence that Paulo Sérgio was against the coup plot is the fact that he was the target of attacks by Bolsonarists after the 2022 elections.
“What is the proof of nine of the accusatory hypothesis? That he was part of the criminal organization to give a coup. What is the proof of the nine that General Paulo Sérgio was not part of this criminal organization?
“According to the prosecution itself, members of this criminal organization were struggling to remove General Paulo Sérgio, Defense Minister, and Army Commander General Freire Gomes.”
Paulo Sérgio’s situation, however, is not so simple. Another part of the PGR accusation says that the General has been subserviently to Bolsonaro in attacking the electronic ballot boxes, using the Armed Forces to create distrust about the electoral system.
The minister lived the crisis with the armed forces closely. He was the president of the TSE while Paulo Sérgio, Minister of Defense, insisted on changes in the electronic voting system.
