The president’s former communications advisor Javier Milei During the 2023 electoral campaign, he appears listed by the federal force as one of those involved in the dismissal plan against the current Brazilian head of state, an operation for which there are already detainees and which even had as its objective the poisoning of the PT leader.
The assassination attempt was scheduled to be carried out before the Lula’s inaugurationon January 1, 2023. Days later, on the 8th, massive demonstrations took place that led to attacks on the buildings of the three powers of Brazilin what was described as an attempted coup.
Cerimedo, former digital strategist for La Libertad Avanza, is accused of ““disseminate false news about electronic ballot boxes during the 2020 electoral process”indicates the 884-page Police report. At that time, the businessman used social networks to spread allegations of fraud that were intended to undermine Lula’s victory over Bolsonaro.
“The Argentine Fernando Cerimedo worked directly to spread false news through a live broadcast carried out on November 4, 2022,” the document notes and adds: “According to Cerimedo, the ballot boxes manufactured before 2020 generated an anomaly in favor of candidate number 13 (list number of Lula’s Workers’ Party).”
The Brazilian Police showed evidence of Fernando Cerimedo’s participation in the attempted coup against Lula
The investigation affirms that the material disseminated by the owner of LaDerechaDiario was available in a Google Drive which was edited by an important advisor to the Brazilian Presidency during the Bolsonaro administration, Third Arnaud Tomaz, linked to the so-called “Office of Hate”, a kind of parallel group that was intended to spread fake news. The parallel assembly referred to Mauro Cid, one of those repentant in the cause.
The Police he named Cerimedo a total of 66 times in the report that investigates the attempted coup d’état, a plan for which the former president was charged Jair Bolsonaro and which included the assassination of Lula da Silva. ”The evidence collected indicates that Jair Bolsonaro “He had full knowledge of the operational plan (‘Green and Yellow Dagger’), as well as the clandestine actions carried out under the nickname ‘Copa 2022’,” indicates the report declassified by the Supreme Court.
“I don’t know any of those involved and neither do they know me.. It is impossible for anyone to say otherwise. I have never spoken or seen them, nor exchanged a message. There is no reason to associate me other than that they have shared a publication of mine,” Cerimedo recently defended himself to the EFE agency. And he broke away from Mauro Cid: “I’m 1000% sure he didn’t even mention me because he never met me, I don’t know him. “I am very calm about this,” he stated.
Jair Bolsonaro was accused of planning the coup attempt that included the assassination of Lula
Among the 37 accused there 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”. The accused could receive a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
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