Bolsonaro speaks of “political persecution” after unanimous vote of the judges
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under trial. The five judges of the highest instance of the Brazilian judicial power, the Federal Supreme Court (STF), unanimously voted to take Bolsonaro to the defendants’ bank, having accepted the accusations of involvement in an armed criminal organization, «Attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law». The investigation of the Federal Police, completed at the end of last year, « The existence of a criminal organization that acted in a coordinated manner in 2022, in an attempt to maintain the then President of the Republic in power, has been found..
Also four military personnel and a Federal Police agent were arrested before the investigation based on accusations of assassination attempted against Lula da Silva, current president, Geraldo Alckmin, vice president, and Alexandre de Moraes, STF minister. The attempted murder were allegedly of a plan prepared at the end of 2022, according to news from the G1News Portal da Globe.
Vote of Alexandre de Moraes
The STF minister, who wrote the case, read his vote yesterday, noting, from the outset, that it is a process «Of denunciation» which included other names besides Jair Bolsonaro, as «Alexandre Ramagem, Almir Garnier Santos, Anderson Gustavo Torres, Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira, Mauro César Barbosa Cid, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira, Walter Souza Braga Netto». This fan is accused “For the practice of conduct of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition to the democratic rule of law, coup, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against the union’s heritage and with considerable damage to the victim and deterioration of the listed heritage. And in relation to Jair Messias Bolsonaro, these imputations and also a specific imputation to lead the criminal organization ».
At issue are also, of course, the insurrections carried out by supporters of Bolsonaro, who invaded and vandalized the main Brazilian power organs of power to Congress, passing the presidential palace. The images, like what had happened in the United States two years earlier, will be marked in the country’s history.
De Moraes addressed a series of important issues, which stands out for the alleged collusion of the former president in the elaboration of a scam sketch: « It is not normal for the president who has just lost an election meets with the army commander, the Navy commander and defense minister to deal with a blow sketch. ».
Bolsonaro claims “political persecution”
«They are in a hurry. Much haste »wrote Jair Bolsonaro on his official social network account X. «The process against me advances at a speed 14 times higher than the monthly and at least 10 times faster than Lula’s Lava Jato». «And the reason? They don’t even try to hide anymore. The press itself news, openly and bluntly, that motivation is not legal, but political: the court tries to prevent me from being tried in 2026, because they want to prevent me from reaching the elections because they know that, in a fair dispute, there is no candidate capable of winning me »also wrote the former president. “Everyone says the process will end by the end of 2025, even though there are no precedents for such speed in a case of this dimension. And why? Because everyone knows that what is underway is, in fact, a kind of legal attack on democracy: a political judgment, partially led, skewed and openly unfair by a completely committed and suspicious rapporteur, whose purpose is to take revenge, attach me and remove myself from the polls. Because everyone knows that, with my name in the dispute, my victory and the conquest of the majority in the Senate are inescapable results. Simple as that. The irony is that the more they run over rules, deadlines and guarantees to try to eliminate me, the more wide, the fear of the polls and the will of the people. If they really believed in democracy they say they defend, they would face me in the vote, not the carpet (justice) ». «But do not think that the world is not attentive»concludes Jair Bolsonaro, «The international community closely follows what is happening in Brazil. Jurists, diplomats and political leaders already recognize the standard: it is the same script that has been seen in Nicaragua and Venezuela. Selective persecution, vague accusations of “extremism” or “threat to democracy” and attempt to eliminate the opposition by court..
A speech that much resembles that of Donald Trump – a leader for whom Bolsonaro nourishes Clara sympathy – when the accusations he also faced in court. In the event of being convicted, Bolsonaro may face a heavy prison sentence, since, under Brazilian law, an attempt to coup can be punished up to 12 years behind bars, and can be extended as the outcome of the trial of other crimes that point to the former president.
