The government expelled the five colonels convicted of inaction during the coup attacks on January 8, 2023. The document was published this Monday (13) in the district Official Gazette.
The measure (Federal Supreme Court). The magistrate ordered on Wednesday (8) that the Military Police declare the officers’ loss of public positions. They are:
- Fábio Augusto Vieira, general commander of the PMDF on January 8;
- Klepter Rosa Gonçalves, deputy general commander of the PMDF on January 8, promoted to general commander by intervenor Ricardo Cappelli on the 9th;
- Jorge Eduardo Naime Barreto, former commander of the PMDF’s DOP (Operations Department), on leave on January 8;
- Paulo José Ferreira, interim head of the DOP on January 8 due to Naime’s time off;
- Marcelo Casimiro, former commander of the 1st CPR (Regional Policing Command) of the PMDF.
The document that formalizes the expulsion was signed on Thursday (9) by Colonel Rômulo Flávio Mendonça Palhares, general commander of the Military Police of the Federal District.
On March 25, the corporation sent a letter to Moraes asking for guidance on compliance with the decision to expel the five colonels. In response, the minister said that, based on the jurisprudence of the , there is no controversy about the possibility of losing an officer’s rank and rank as a consequence of a criminal conviction, whether for a military or common crime.
Moraes reproduced an excerpt from his vote for conviction in which he states that the military’s conduct was “marked by deliberate omission in the fulfillment of their functional duty” and is “manifestly incompatible with remaining in public service.”
The former members of the corporation’s leadership were sentenced to 16 years in prison by the First Panel for the crimes of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup d’état, qualified damage through violence and serious threat to the Union’s assets and deterioration of listed assets.
The officers have been detained since March 11 in the 19th Battalion of the Federal District, known as Papudinha, in .
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