The first class of the (Supreme Federal Court) formed a majority to condemn the former minister, reserve general and former candidate for vice president of the Republic for the crime of attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, in the trial of the coup plot that culminated in the attacks on the headquarters on January 8, 2023.
The vote was given by the minister, who. He also spoke up to acquit Braga Netto from the other charges.
Braga Netto was appointed as one of the members of the central core of the complaint, and was accused of crimes of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, attempted coup, qualified damage and deterioration of overturned heritage.
According to Fux, “Defendant Braga Netto, in a unit of designage with [o tenente-coronel] Rafael de Oliveira and Mauro Cid, planned and funded the beginning of the execution of acts intended to reap the life of the rapporteur of this criminal action, Alexandre de Mores, and the criminal purpose was not only achieved by the event that a session of the plenary of this Court was abruptly suspended, impairing the preparation of crime executors. “
“The violent death of one of the members of this Court would be a traumatic episode for the country’s political stability, generating tense social commotion and endangering the separation of powers.”
The ministers Cristiano Zanin and Cármen Lúcia will also vote, who can condemn Braga Netto also for other crimes.
In the complaint, the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) points to Braga Netto as a leader, alongside Bolsonaro, of a criminal organization. The PF states that a meeting took place at home in which the Plan to Kill (), Vice President () and the STF minister was discussed.
Lieutenant Colonel, a former Bolsonaro orders and also a defendant in the coup plot, said he received from Braga Netto a box of wine full of cash to deliver to Lieutenant Colonel Rafael de Oliveira, accused of leading the group that planned to kill Moraes.
A, commanded by lawyer José Luis Oliveira Lima, tried to question the validity of Cid’s collaboration and stated that the complaint had no evidence that corroborated the denunciation.
Braga Netto was vice in the plate of () in the 2022 presidential election. He is the only one of the accused of the central core of the plot that is pre -imprisoned for involvement in the attempted coup d’état. According to the PGR (Attorney General’s Office), the military tried to interfere with the investigations.
Cid said in testimony that Braga Netto sought his father, also General Mauro Lourena Cid, to ask for details about what former Bolsonaro orders of orders had said in the award-winning denunciation.
According to the army, Braga Netto is the first four -star general – or from the top of his military career – arrested in the history of Brazil.
The reserve general is 68 years old. He was head of the army state and, in the Bolsonaro government, Minister of the Civil House and Defense. Before, during the management of, he was a federal intervener in the public security of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
