2023-09-21 17:21:00
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, speaks with Mauro Cid following a meeting at the Planalto Palace (REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File)
A close collaborator of Jair Bolsonaro told the Police that the former Brazilian president and senior military commanders met last year to discuss a military intervention to annul the election result following his defeat, the newspaper O Globo and the newspaper reported this Thursday. UOL news website.
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Former Bolsonaro adviser Mauro Cid agreed this month to cooperate with the Federal Police, which is investigating the former president for possible crimes, from embezzlement to inciting his followers to the January riots in the capital, Brasilia.
The Police have kept Cid’s testimony secret while they investigate.
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According to the reports, which did not cite their sources, Cid told the Police that Bolsonaro sounded out commanders of the armed forces regarding a draft decree to annul the elections.
Mauro Cid (Europa Press/Contacto/Frederico Brasil)
Lawyers for Cid and Bolsonaro did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the reports. The Federal Police said it does not comment on ongoing investigations.
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Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes earlier this month authorized the cooperation agreement between Cid and the Police, and released him from jail, where he has been since May, when he was arrested as part of an investigation into alleged forgery. of Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 vaccination cards.
Bolsonaro is accused of forging an election denial movement that culminated in a Jan. 8 assault on government buildings in Brasilia by thousands of his supporters. Brazil’s federal electoral court has already banned him from running in elections until 2030.
Photo of the assault on government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, 2023 (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
The Supreme Court of Brazil reported that it will resort to virtual trials to speed up the processes of some of the hundreds of people accused of the attempted coup d’état on January 8.
Last week the high court sentenced the first three defendants to sentences of between 14 and 17 years in prison, for crimes such as coup d’état, abolition of the democratic rule of law and qualified damages, among others.
The first virtual trial, in which the judges can vote electronically, without having to read their arguments, will be held between September 26 and October 2, and refers to the case of Moacir José dos Santos, one of those accused of participating in the assault on the headquarters of the three powers.
Police officers stand next to a window of the Planalto Palace destroyed by followers of former president Jair Bolsonaro (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether it will hold virtual or in-person trials in the rest of the processes, in which the individual responsibility of each of those involved in the January 8 riot is resolved.
The prosecution has filed criminal charges once morest 232 people for their alleged direct involvement in the attack on the headquarters of the Presidency, the National Congress and the Supreme Court.
In total, there are 1,390 defendants in the case, although the Supreme Court has authorized the prosecution to negotiate non-criminal prosecution agreements with the nearly 1,100 people involved once morest whom there is no evidence of their direct participation in the attacks.
(With information from Archyde.com and EFE)
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