This Saturday morning (27), the Federal Police served ten warrants for house arrest, with the use of an electronic ankle bracelet, determined by the Federal Supreme Court as part of criminal actions analyzing the attempted coup d’état in the country.
Among the targets of the operation, according to lawyer Jeffrey Chiquini, who represents the defendant in core 2 of the coup plot.
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The STF’s order comes one day after the former director general of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), Silvinei Vasques, was arrested at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, in Asunción, Paraguay, when trying to board a flight to El Salvador.
The arrest occurred after he broke the electronic ankle bracelet he was wearing following a court order from Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, and left Brazil without authorization.
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This Saturday’s court orders are being complied with in the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Goiás, Bahia, Tocantins and the Federal District, with support from the Brazilian Army in part of the efforts.
In addition to house arrest, precautionary measures were imposed such as the ban on the use of social networks, contact with other people being investigated, the surrender of passports, the suspension of firearm possession documents and the ban on visits.
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According to the prosecution, Martins prepared one of the versions of the draft, an allegation denied by the former advisor’s defense. He was sentenced to 21 years and 6 months in prison.
Between February and August 2024, Martins was in pre-trial detention. He was released subject to precautionary measures.
What does the defense say?
In a statement, Martins’ defense classified the measure as abuse and stated that the client has been complying with the precautionary measures in an exemplary manner. According to the document, by an act of a third party, a person who has nothing to do with Martins, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, imposes house arrest on the former advisor. See the full note.
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In yet another chapter in the long list of abuses committed against Filipe Martins, now Minister Alexandre de Moraes imposes house arrest on him for the acts of third parties.
As Minister Alexandre de Moraes himself recognized in November, Filipe has been complying in an exemplary manner with the unfair and abusive precautionary measures already imposed against him. In November, Filipe was threatened with arrest for a misreading of the electronic ankle bracelet report and the minister reversed this threat after verifying it.
However, what happens now is even worse. By an act of a third party, a person who has nothing to do with Filipe and is not close to him, the minister imposes on him house arrest and a serious visitation restriction, which adds to the other already abusive precautionary measures imposed by the non-existent trip.
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Precautions, in fact, that seem to be eternal, because even after having exhausted their reasons in relation to Filipe, they were maintained with generic decisions and without adequate justification.
The rapporteur’s attitude violates the constitutional principle of the personality of the sentence, according to which “no sentence will pass from the person of the convicted person” (art. 5, XLV).
This is yet another abuse, another groundless precaution, like all the others, after a conviction built on absolute ignorance of the evidence and substantial due legal process.
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Filipe Martins proved in the process that he did not participate in any of the acts attributed to him and was even confirmed by prosecution witnesses, such as General Freire Gomes and Brigadeiro Baptista Júnior, but this was completely ignored in a “fake” and “artificial” legal process, which did not really consider the defense and just wanted to condemn at any cost, just as the individuality of the penalty is now being ignored.
The Defense repudiates and further denounces this act against its client and calls on national institutions, especially the OAB, to denounce this violation of the fundamental rights of a Brazilian citizen.
With information from Estadão Conteúdo
