The president of the Supreme Court, Luis Roberto Barroso, said that “only the deep ignorance of the facts or a cool motivation of reality will find in this trial (former President Jair Bolsonaro) some kind of political persecution.”
Barroso gave a brief speech after the decision of the STF’s first class of condemning Bolsonaro and seven other defendants for the crimes of attempted coup, attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, damage to the union’s heritage and deterioration of listed heritage.
The president of the Supreme Court said he would not make any merit judgment about the case, but praised the “Herculean” work of Minister Alexandre de Moraes and said the case was a “watershed in the history of Brazil”. Also according to Barroso, it was a “public, transparent, due process of law, based on the most diverse evidence, videos, texts, messages, confessions”.
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“The court has fulfilled an important and historical mission to judge, based on important evidence, civil and military authorities for attempted coup d’état. No one leaves today happy today, but we have to fulfill the missions that life gives us with serenity and courage,” said the minister.
According to Barroso, “we are ending the cycles of delay in Brazilian life, marked by coup and the breakdown of constitutional legality.” “I am convinced that today’s misunderstandings will become recognition in the future,” he said.
“I wish we are becoming a page of Brazilian life and I hope we can reconstruct relationships, pacify the country and work for a common and truly patriotic agenda, without intolerance, extremism and incivility,” said the minister, before ending the STF’s first class session.
