The case against Jair Bolsonaro by coup attempt It advances after, last week, the Police completed its investigation and delivered an 800-page report to the Justice Department for evaluation and consideration, on whether or not to file charges against the former president.
This Tuesday, the folder entered the attorney general’s office, Paulo Gonetwho must analyze all the evidence collected about what happened at the end of 2022, after the presidential elections, and decide whether the far-right and others 36 co-conspirators they must be formally accused.
Likewise, the Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes -Bolsonaro’s rival- reported that the case no longer enjoys confidentialityso what was presented has already begun to be made public.
For example, the Police maintain that Bolsonaro “planned, acted, had control directly and effectively” y “full awareness and active participation” in the criminal organization that had the goal of carrying out a coup d’état, just as it had “full knowledge of operational planning (Green and Yellow Dagger)” to kill Lula, his candidate for vice president Geraldo Alckmin already from Moraes.
“The then President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, actively participated in the creation of the coup plan, getting directly involved in the writing documents and strategies to remain in power, even after electoral defeat. He was one of the central figures in the meetings to define the steps and actions to follow“, reads in a fragment.
However, he highlights that these ideas were “aborted” due to “circumstances beyond his control.”
On November 21, the Brazilian Police presented its investigation into the plot that led to what it considers an attempted “coup d’état” by Bolsonaro, who sought overthrow and assassinate the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in order to prevent him from assuming the top executive position.
For more than two years, investigators spoke with people in the politician’s circle and evaluated conversations and documents that, they maintain, show that after Bolsonaro’s defeat that year, he maintained meetings at the Alvorada Palace to plan these actions. In fact, in the last few hours it was learned that 53 recordings that they would verify the pressure from senior Army officers on the then president to remain in power.
The accusations of attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup attempt y criminal organization They reach some prominent figures in their environment, such as the former Minister of Defense and Civil House, Walter Braga Net; Augustus Helenusof the National Security Cabinet; the former director general of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), Alexandre Ramagem; and Paulo Sérgio Nogueirafrom the Defense portfolio, among others 32 names.
Also included in the list are three elite soldiers and a police officer arrested last week for being behind a parallel plan to assassinate Lula and Moraes.
Although Bolsonaro’s ideas did not come to fruition due to lack of support from the Armed Forces, far-right followers did carry out an insurrection in the presidential palace, the Congress building and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, on January 8, 2023. .
Bolsonaro claims to be innocent of the crimes of which he is accused and, instead, maintains that it is a political “persecution”.
“The term ‘coup d’état’ has never been part of my lexicon”he said in a press conference, while on his social networks he was more blunt and charged against the Brazilian Magistrate and the judicial system.
“De Moraes leads the entire investigation, adjusts the statementsstops without complaints, carries out test fishing and has very creative advice… does everything that the law does not say. We have to see what is in this PF accusation. I’m going to wait for the lawyer (…) The PGR is where the fight begins. “I can’t expect anything from a team that uses creativity to denounce me.”wrote.
(With information from AFP)
