A report of the Police of Brazil revealed that the former president Jair Bolsonaro “planned” and had control “effectively and directly” of a coup plan in 2022 that included he murder of the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Last week, in the middle of the G20, eight soldiers were arrested in the same case.
The attempted assassination was scheduled to be carried out before Lula’s inauguration, on January 1, 2023, the day on which demonstrations were also carried out that led to attacks on the buildings of the three powers of Brazil, in what was described as an attempted coup.
The failed plan also aimed to kill the vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, and to the judge of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraesat that time head of the Superior Electoral Court and now rapporteur of this case.
”The evidence collected indicates that Jair Bolsonaro had full knowledge of the operational plan (‘Green and Yellow Dagger’)as well as the clandestine actions carried out under the nickname ‘Cup 2022’”, indicates the report declassified by the Supreme Court.
According to the report of the Brazilian Federal Policedisclosed in the framework of the case on the attempted coup against Lulathe evidence obtained by the investigation “unequivocally demonstrates that the then president Jair Bolsonaro planned, acted and had direct and effective control of the executive acts carried out by the criminal organization whose objective was to carry out a coup d’état and the abolition of the democratic State, an event that was not carried out due to circumstances beyond its control. willpower”.
The Police charged Jair Bolsonaro and 36 people for the attempted coup d’état
Last week, the Police charged Bolsonaro and 36 other people for promoting a coup attempt to remain in office despite his electoral defeat in the 2022 presidential elections.
Among the 37 defendants are also active and reserve leaders, former ministers, people from close military circles of Bolsonaro and even Valdemar Costa Neto, president of Liberal Party (PL), led by the former ruler.
The assassination plans were internally called by the coup plotters themselves as “Operation Green Yellow Dagger”in reference to the colors of the Brazilian flag. And according to the report, They were printed at the headquarters of the Presidential Palace.
Regarding the plan, the report says that “On November 9, 2022, after preparing and printing the document” in the Presidential Palace, General Mario Fernandes, one of those involved, went to the official residence of the Presidencywhere was Bolsonaro. However, it does not specify whether the then president received it.
Among the accused also appears Walter Braga Netto, general of the Brazilian Army and former Chief of Staff of the Presidency and former Minister of Defense, who was candidate for vice president in 2022, in the formula with Bolsonaro.
They also appear Almir Garnier Santos, former Navy commander, and retired generals August Hellene and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, who were part of the cabinet Bolsonaro, who denied all the accusations and declared himself a victim of a “political persecution”.
They arrested four soldiers accused of wanting to poison Lula to carry out a coup d’état
Within the framework of the same case, while the last day of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro was taking place, the Brazilian police arrested four important soldiers, one of them a former collaborator of former president Jair Bolsonaro, involved in the alleged plan to kill Lula in 2022.
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.
Now, the suspects could face charges of violent abolition of the rule of law, coup d’état and criminal association.
Argentina requested the arrest of 61 Bolsonaro supporters, fugitives in the country, for the coup attempt
In parallel, at the local level, the Argentine justice granted a request from the Brazilian justice system and asked Interpol to arrest of 61 Bolsonaro fugitives from Brazilian justiceafter having participated in an uprising against various government agencies from the neighboring country in January 2023.
All those involved are convicted or prosecuted for the assault on the headquarters of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Courtwhich occurred on January 8, 2023, at the beginning of the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawho had defeated the then president Jair Bolsonaro in the elections.
This request comes a few days after the first meeting between the president Javier Milei and his Brazilian counterpart at the summit G20, which will take place next week in Rio de Janeiro.
A month ago the Supreme Court of Brazil asked Argentina to extradite the fugitives and this Friday the federal judge Daniel Rafecas He requested the arrests, after having received the file from the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires.
Source: Ambito
