The First Panel of the (Supreme Federal Court) begins judging this Tuesday (14) the seven defendants accused of composing and opposing a coup d’état.
The expectation is that the sessions will be less noisy than those that culminated in the conviction of () to 27 years in prison. In the trial concluded on September 11, for the first time in the country’s history, a .
Unlike the analysis of the complaint against the organization’s leaders, this time it will be the minister who will lead the sessions. He assumed the presidency of the collegiate at the end of Cristiano Zanin’s period at the head of the group.
This is the first time that the minister presides over one of the court’s collegiate bodies. He holds the position for one year. Therefore, he must coordinate the work of the coup plot until the trials are concluded.
Another expectation revolves around the vote of . In the central nucleus, the minister voted to acquit Bolsonaro of all the crimes he was accused of in the process and to convict only the whistleblower Mauro Cid and general Walter Braga Netto.
In addition to being the first dissenting vote, Fux clashed with Alexandre de Moraes’ methods at the head of the process throughout 13 hours of reading his statement.
According to court advisors, for the other groups, the minister’s vote should be shorter, as he has already presented some of the grounds that he considers most important for building his position.
The (Attorney General’s Office) requested the conviction of all defendants in the group in early September. In the closing arguments, Gonet defended the thesis that the crimes of attempted coup d’état and attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law are different — and, therefore, .
As a result, in practice the PGR tries to ensure that the sentences of any convicts are placed at higher levels.
The trial will be in person, as well as in the central nucleus. Sessions were booked on four dates: this Tuesday and Wednesday (15th) and next week, on the 21st and 22nd.
The first sessions must be dedicated to reading the minister’s report, in which he reports how each stage of the criminal investigation took place until the trial, and to oral arguments.
The Attorney General of the Republic, , will have two hours to speak for the prosecution, and each defense, one hour to ask for the defendants’ acquittal. Only next week will the votes be collected.
The nucleus is made up of former members of the Bolsonaro government at lower levels, Army soldiers and those accused of spreading disinformation about the elections.
The defendants in this group are (major expelled from the Army), (army reserve major), (army sergeant), (army lieutenant colonel), (army colonel), (federal police officer) and (president of the Instituto Voto Legal).
According to the complaint, former Abin members Giancarlo Rodrigues and Marcelo Bormevet were part of a parallel structure of the agency for the production and dissemination of fake news and attacks against Bolsonaro’s political opponents.
Gonet says that the major and former advisor to the Ministry of Health Ângelo Denicoli worked with the former director of Abin Alexandre Ramagem in Jair Bolsonaro’s “systematic attacks on the electoral process”.
Lieutenant Colonel Guilherme Marques Almeida is accused of spreading false material about fraud in the presidential elections, and Colonel Reginaldo Vieira de Abreu allegedly tried to interfere in the Armed Forces report on the electronic voting system.
Carlos César Moretzsohn Rocha would have been responsible for producing a “maliciously manipulated technical report” by the Instituto Voto Legal for the Liberal Party.
Reserve Major Ailton Barros, finally, is accused of promoting virtual attacks against the heads of the Armed Forces who were against the coup attempt.
The defendants deny having committed the crimes.
