Brazil: Supreme Court judge guarantees that there was a plan to hang him in the 2023 coup plot

Alexandre de Moraesone of the eleven judges of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, guaranteed this Thursday that there was a plan to hang him in a public square during the coup carried out by followers of the former president JairBolsonaro on January 8, 2023.

In an interview with the newspaper ‘O Globo’, De Moraes, responsible for the investigations underway at the high court into the attempted coup, revealed that during the investigations the authorities They even discovered “three plans” to stop and execute him.

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According to the judge, one of them It predicted his arrest and public “hanging” in Praça dos Três Poderes, in Brasília.where the buildings that house the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary powers are located.

De Moraes stated that this macabre idea demonstrates “the level of aggression and hatred” of the far-right radicals who invaded and destroyed the headquarters of the Presidency, Congress and the Federal Supreme Court with the aim of encouraging a military intervention to overthrow the Government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The judge also stated that another option provided for the Army’s “Special Forces” to arrest him “on a Sunday” and take him to a barracks in Goiânia, a city located around 200 kilometers from the Brazilian capital.

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Likewise, the possibility was raised, according to De Moraes, of “getting rid of” his body on the way to Goiânia.

De Moraes, the target of serious attacks from Bolsonaro himself while he was in power between 2019 and 2022, the year in which he lost the elections to Lula, whose victory he never recognized, He insisted there was an “attempt to plan” his arrest and possible execution.

“In fact, there is another investigation that investigates this, with the participation of Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), which monitored my movements so that, when necessary, they could carry out the arrest”, he declared.

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This is the first time that these alleged plans to capture and murder De Moraes have become known, which have never come to light either in the trials carried out so far regarding the assault on Brasília, nor in the parliamentary commission that investigated the case. in the press.

At the moment, the Supreme Court has sentenced around thirty of the almost 2,000 people accused of the coup plot, of which 66 remain in prison, including those convicted and in pre-trial detention, while the rest are still free.

Bolsonaro He is only listed as being investigated for inciting the attacks.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called on all the powers of the Nation to celebrate next Monday, one year after the episode, the attempted coup, which in his opinion left “deep scars”, “divided the country” and “put democracy in the background”. risk.”

Source: Elcomercio

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