As the last day of the summit took place G20 in Rio from janeiro, Brazilian police arrested four important soldiers, one of them a former collaborator of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for orchestrating an alleged plan to kill in 2022 to the then elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in order to carry out a coup d’état.
According to a statement from the Federal Police (PF), the detainees planned a coup d’état to prevent the inauguration of the current president and even assassinate him. In turn, a force agent was arrested.
These soldiers planned poisoning Lula with a chemical agent months after being elected, as reported by the intelligence directorate of the security force in a document released.
At first, the institution reported that the soldiers had been “detained in Rio de Janeiro, where they were participating in the security mission of the G20 leaders’ meeting.” However, later this It was denied by the Army.
Tuesday’s arrests were made almost a week after a failed attack against the Supreme Court of Justice, in which a former Bolsonaro councilor died in front of the building after throwing homemade explosives that did not cause other victims.
The plan to kill Lula and carry out a coup d’état
Investigators called the plan ““Green and Yellow Dagger” and they assured that it was scheduled to be executed on December 15, 2022 and that it also contemplated killing the then vice president-elect, Geraldo Alckmin.
In that sense, they indicated that the project would have been discussed on November 12 at the general’s house Walter Braga Nettoformer Minister of Defense and former chief of staff under Bolsonaro, who was later his candidate for vice president, according to the AFP.
The same document also mentions that Mauro Cida close collaborator of Bolsonaro, was “probably” aware of that meeting.
Likewise, according to investigators, the document with the details of the operation had been printed in the Planalto Palace Brazilian presidential headquarters, when Bolsonaro was there.
Who are the detained soldiers?
The detainees are the reserve brigadier general Mario Fernandesthen substitute head of the General Secretariat of the Presidency with Bolsonaro, the lieutenant colonels Helio Ferreira Lima, Rodrigo Bezerra Azevedo and Rafael Martins de Oliveira and the federal police Wladimir Matos Soares.
The four soldiers are part of the so-called ““pretos kids”as the special forces of the Brazilian Army are known. As reported, pThey intended to use “advanced military operational techniques” for the “coup”, in addition to instituting a “crisis cabinet” that they and other superiors would integrate.
The police process also indicated that among the options to kill Lula they considered a “poisoning or use of chemicals to cause organic collapse.”
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Now, the suspects could face charges of violent abolition of the rule of law, coup d’état and criminal association.
Source: Ambito
