STF Minister claimed that there is no enough evidence for the conviction of the former Minister of Defense of Brazil
The minister of, voted to Absolver, former Minister of Defense of Brazil, of all the crimes of which he was accused by the attempted coup d’état on January 8, 2023. “There is not enough evidence,” said the minister on Wednesday (10) during his analysis of the accused for attacks on democracy. “I see thus the absence of any evidence, in the sense that the defendant Paulo Sérgio Guedes de Oliveira acted to support or participate in the practice of a coup d’état, or a violent abolition of the democratic state and law,” said Fux.
“The defendant did not support any idea of institutional rupture. In my way of seeing, there was an innovation in final allegations series, which came to accuse him of committing a consistent omission crimes in severe non-compliance with his duties employees, when he could have acted to prevent the results,” added the minister.
The session began around 9 am and already lasts more than 12h. In addition to Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, the former president it was also acquitted of the accusations. The STF minister is third of the five members of the first class to vote. Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin are still missing. The trial is expected to be completed by Friday (12).
