The minister exalted on Tuesday (9) the legalistic role of the then army commanders, Marco Antonio Freire Gomes, and the Air Force, Carlos de Almeida Baptista Junior, saying that their performance is a source of pride and admiration.
“Of the three, to pride of ours, who deserve all the respect and admiration, of the three, two commanders refused to practice and make the scam requested by Jair Messias Bolsonaro,” said Moraes, who at various times again quoted this stance.
The compliments at the end of the process come after both appear as omission suspects at the beginning and to minimize in the investigation the signature in a note that was read in 2022 as an endorsement for the maintenance of the coup camps in front of army barracks.
Freire Gomes was still recently targeted when the minister assessed that he would be changing version of what he had said to the police.
According to PF investigations, the prosecution of the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) and the vote of Moraes, Freire Gomes and Baptista Júnior were essential to block the institutional break by not announcing with the so-called Bolsonaro coup drafts, which established exception measures to stay in power and prevent Lula’s possession.
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In November 2023, when he made the first representation of the case to the (Supreme Federal Court), the PF cited evidence that Freire Gomes and Baptista Jr. had resisted the pressure to adhere to a coup, but said that a possible omission had to be aware of the illegal plot and did nothing.
Freire Gomes’ role has always been treated with greater weight because the army is the force of greatest power.
The PF, in this first report, gave important weight to. The document was seen at the time as a message to the judiciary and an endorsement for the maintenance of camps before the army’s headquarters.
“Regarding the popular demonstrations that have been taking place in numerous places in the country, the Brazilian Navy, the Brazilian Army and the Brazilian Air Force reaffirm its unrestricted and unshakable commitment to the Brazilian people, with the political and social harmony of Brazil, ratified by the values and traditions of the armed forces, always present and moderating in the most important moments of our history,” said the note signed by Freire Gomes and Baptista Jr. Almir Garnier Commander of the Navy and today defendant in the coup plot.
In addition to using the term “moderator”, widely invoked by pockets as a pro-pro-intervention argument, the note stressed that the critical manifestation of constitutional powers or the journalistic powers or the claim of constitutional rights and guarantees, through gadgets, strikes, agglomerations or any other form of political manifestation for social purposes. “
The public demonstration of the three unusual military chiefs was read at the time as a message to the Supreme Court and was celebrated by pockets as an important seal to scammer camps – where they would leave, less than two months later, the people who depredated the Praça of the Three Powers.
Already there is no mention of the suspicion of omission of the two commanders, and the 2022 note is treated laterally.
Freire Gomes’ testimony to the STF in June, considering that he had a different version of the statements given to the Federal Police.
At the time, the minister interrupted the testimony after the general was not assertive in reporting on the reaction of the former navy commander to the scammers.
“Admiral Garnier took his posture, I think he was also surprised, and manifested. I did not interpret it as any kind of collusion,” said Freire Gomes.
The Supreme Minister said the general’s version of the general was different from the version presented to the Federal Police and would “give the witness a chance to speak the truth.” “He lied to the police, has to say he lied to the police,” he said.
Although other evidence beyond the word of the commanders themselves indicate that they were a big barrier to the plot, the final document of the PF, the PGR denunciation and the vote of Moraes ignore evidence in the different sense.
In addition to signing the November 2022 note, it was Freire Gomes to order the barracks when General Gustavo Dutra, head of the Planalto Military Command, prepared operation on December 29, 2022. O, with fear of Bolsonaro’s reaction.
Another episode was the participation of the army chief in the time when Bolsonaro and several ministers made demonstrations of clear scammer three months of the election.
At the end of 2022, the then army commander maintained ambiguous relationship with Bolsonaro. He accompanied the second round investigation alongside the former president in the Dawn Palace and returned to the scene at least 13 times after the electoral defeat-some with military chiefs, others alone. Among others, on December 24, when he delivered a gift and invitation to Bolsonaro to the command of command.
