The former Minister of the Civil House wants to use the acquisition to access news channels
General Walter Braga Netto, former minister of the Civil House in the government of Jair Bolsonaro, asked minister Alexandre de Moraes for authorization to install cable TV in your cell in the 1st Army Division of the Eastern Military Command, in Rio de Janeiro. In the request, he also requests authorization to undertake a distance graduation to reduce his sentence. The requests have not yet been analyzed.
According to Braga Netto’s defense, the former minister and former vice-presidential candidate in the 2022 electoral dispute wants to use cable TV to access news channels.
“It is General Braga Netto’s right to remain linked to social reality and there is no obstacle in the legislation to this happening through monitoring news channels. This possibility gains even more relevance given the fact that the Petitioner is the only custodian of the military unit, which imposes on him a routine without the establishment of interpersonal relationships and, therefore, without any social integration“, says Braga Netto’s defense.
Therefore, “authorization is required to access cable television, the costs of contracting, installing (considering the infrastructure available in the military unit) and maintenance will be fully supported by General Braga Netto himself”.
As for graduation, the defense points out a list of courses offered by Faculdade Estácio, but without identifying which one the former minister would have chosen. The list includes degrees from 2 to 4 years, in the most diverse areas of graduation.
Walter Braga Netto was sentenced to 26 years in prison in a closed regime, for the crimes of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup d’état, qualified damage through violence and serious threat and deterioration of listed property.
He had already been in prison since December 2024, accused of obstructing the investigation into the coup attempt to prevent the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
*With Estadão Content
