BRASILIA, DF (FOLHAPRESS) – The Minister of Defense, José Múcio, said this Wednesday (20) that the Armed Forces do not represent the military detained in an operation that investigates a coup d’état planned in 2022 to prevent the takeover of the President Lula. (PT).
The plan, according to the Federal Police, included the murder of the PT, his deputy Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and the minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes.
“They are not people who represent the Armed Forces. They did not represent the military. They were with the CPF.” [deles]This was everyone’s initiative. And I hope that everything is investigated, that the culprits are truly tried by justice,” he said upon arriving in Itamaraty, where he is participating in a dinner in honor of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“It is the STF and the PF who are in charge of this. We will only know when the fact is fulfilled, the process is concluded. I hope and the Forces also hope that those who tarnish the name of the Armed Forces, if they are truly guilty, do so. “. be punished,” he concluded.
This Tuesday’s operation was authorized by Moraes and targeted a retired general, a federal police officer and soldiers with training in special forces, the so-called “black children.”
It occurs less than a week after the attack with explosions in Praça dos Três Poderes, about which Moraes and the general director of the PF, Andrei Rodrigues, anticipated conclusions that link the episode with investigations involving former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and his allies. .
The PF investigation that gave rise to the operation that began this Tuesday discovered that the five detainees (four soldiers and a federal police officer) planned in 2022, through a messaging application, the murder of Lula, Alckmin and Moraes to prevent the PT to take office.
During his mandate, the now ineligible Bolsonaro accumulated coup statements and is currently the subject of an investigation by the PF into his role in the plot that tried to prevent the elected president from taking office.7
The conduct of the five detained by the PF this Tuesday (19) could be classified as crimes against democracy, according to 4 out of 5 criminal law experts interviewed by Folha.
There is, however, a divergent current that understands the actions of the suspects as merely preparatory acts, which would lead to their conduct not being punishable in the criminal sphere.
