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The Chief Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet of the Brazilian Presidency, Marco Edson Gonçalves Diasresigned this Wednesday after the press released images in which he appears together with protesters who assaulted the headquarters of the three powers on January 8.
The resignation of Gonçalves Diasa trusted man of the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvawas immediately accepted by the ruler, official sources reported.
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The reserve soldier submitted his resignation a few hours after television CNN Brazil divulge images from the security cameras of the Planalto Presidential Palace in which he appears at the headquarters of the Presidency on the day of the coup acts.
The now ex-minister initially appears walking the corridors of the third floor of the Presidency and entering the office of the head of state, but he is also seen next to some of the protesters who invaded the building, to whom he apparently indicates an exit from emergency.
General Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias was announced by the transition team of the federal government in December 2022 as head of the GSI, the body responsible for advising the President of the Republic on military and security affairs. pic.twitter.com/KtaznLdbyi
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In another image, one of his advisors appears talking with the invaders of the Palace, greeting them and even offering them a bottle of water.
According to the Security Cabinet, the images reflect “the actions of the security agents, whose objective, at first, was to evacuate the third and fourth floors of the Planalto Palace”.
Gonçalves Dias was a soldier very close to Lula, he worked in the security of the Presidency in the first two terms of the progressive leader and his successor and political goddaughter, Dilma Rousseffand was in charge of Lula’s security during the 2022 electoral campaign.
On January 8, thousands of radical protesters who did not recognize the defeat of the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro in last October’s elections they assaulted the offices of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court in an attempt to force a coup against Lula.
Shortly before announcing the minister’s resignation, the Presidency released a statement in which it stressed that the participation of the military in the coup acts has been under investigation by the Supreme Court since February 27 and affirmed that all those responsible will be punished.
“All the soldiers involved in (the events of) January 8 have already been identified and investigated within the framework of the aforementioned investigation. 81 soldiers have already been heard, including members of the Institutional Security Cabinet”, according to the statement.
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The note stresses that the coup acts took place only a week after Lula took office and that, for the same reason, at that time there were still many members of the previous administration in the security teams of the Presidency.
“The government’s orientation remains the same: there will be no impunity for those involved in the criminal acts of January 8”, concludes the statement.
Source: Elcomercio
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