The action in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) against the so -called “crucial core” of the alleged coup attempt entered the final phase. All eight defendants, including former President Jair Bolsonaro, filed the final allegations and called for the acquittal of the crimes that are accused. Now, the president of the First Class of the Supreme Court, Minister Cristiano Zanin, will set the date of the trial, which may happen in September.
In the petition, Bolsonaro’s lawyers claim that there is no evidence against him and again request the cancellation of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid’s award-winning denunciation. In the nearly 200 pages, lawyers say the former president never acted to prevent President Lula’s inauguration and always defended democracy.
Former Minister Anderson Torres’ defense argues that the document found at his house, which provided for the annulment of the 2022 election outcome and became known as a “coup draft”, was not put into practice. For them, this mere thought cannot be punished.
General Augusto Heleno’s lawyers point out that there is no evidence that he has participated, encouraged or supported actions aimed at institutional breakage. They also claim that the accusation needs concrete elements and is based on presumptions.
In his defense, Alexandre Ramagem, former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), maintains that he never participated in discussions to keep Jair Bolsonaro in power. In addition, he says he did not authorize any illegal intelligence operation.
Former Minister Braga Netto stressed that he did not participate in the plan “Green and Yellow Dagger”-which provided for the death of Lula, STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin. In addition, he pointed out that an alleged lack of impartiality of Moraes to ask for the nullity of the process.
Already the defense of former minister Paulo Sergio Nogueira considers absurd and contrary to the proof of the records the accusations. According to his lawyers, Nogueira’s goal was to maintain the unit among the three armed commanders, closing a consensus contrary to the adoption of an exception measure.
The whistleblower and lieutenant colonel Mauro Cid had already presented the conclusions in late July. His lawyers claim that he acted by complying with higher orders, without the intention of paying attention against the Democratic Rule of Law. Cid’s defense also called for judicial forgiveness, arguing that the lieutenant colonel collaborated with the investigations.
