Bolsonaro’s former advisor for international affairs and retired colonel Marcelo Câmara, also a former assistant to the former president, presented their final arguments this Saturday (11) on .
Both deny any participation in planning a coup d’état and reaffirm the argument that the process is riddled with defects, such as, according to them, the forced collaboration of Mauro Cid and the incompetence of the (Supreme Federal Court) to judge the case.
The rapporteur, minister, had removed the two defendants’ defense lawyers on the grounds that they were using a delaying maneuver to try to delay the end of the procedural investigation. The minister had appointed public defenders to defend the defendants, but later backed down and .
Martins, represented by his lawyer, reaffirmed in his closing arguments that he was a victim of lawfare (judicial persecution) and requested the annulment of the process due to illegalities, including the use of preventive detention based on a “non-existent trip” to the USA to, in his version, force a plea bargain.
Câmara, defended by , denies having integrated a criminal organization or planning the “neutralization” of authorities.
The nucleus of the coup plot made up of Martins and Câmara does not have a trial date set by the STF. The court begins on Tuesday (14), who is accused of spreading disinformation against electronic voting machines and attacking authorities opposed to a coup d’état.
This will be the second core of the coup plot to be tried in the Supreme Court. The first defendants convicted were the members of the central group of the attempted coup d’état — the former president (PL) was imprisoned.
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