PF finds on Mauro Cid’s cellphone a draft for the summoning of the Army

PF finds on Mauro Cid’s cellphone a draft for the summoning of the Army


New batch of evidence brings documents that would provide ‘legal and legal support for carrying out a coup’




Investigators of the Federal Police (PF) found on the mobile phone of the former aide of Jair Bolsonaro, Colonel Mauro Cid, the draft of a decree of Guarantee of Order and Law (GLO), as well as “studies” whose objective , according to the investigation, was to support a possible coup. The information was provided by the journalist Malu Gaspar, columnist of the The globe.

GLO is a measure provided by the Brazilian Constitution that allows the use of the Armed Forces to assist in public safety in situations of serious disturbance of order.

According to the publication, Cid went to the PF headquarters in Brasilia this Tuesday 6, to testify in the wake of this new round of evidence.

During the hearing, accompanied by Deputy Public Prosecutor Lindora Araújo, Cid chose to exercise his right to silence and refused to speak.

With this statement, the PF sought to identify the person responsible for preparing these studies and also to clarify for whom they were compiled. However, so far, there is no indication that the material was sent to Bolsonaro via mobile phone.

Order of Moraes

The minister of the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, authorized the new hearing of the CID, stating that the former aide-de-camp “has collected documents with the aim of obtaining legal and legal support for the execution of a coup d’etat ” .

According to Moraes’ dispatch, the material found concerns “the possibility of using the Armed Forces on an exceptional basis to guarantee the autonomous and harmonious functioning of the powers of the Union”.

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The documents found with the Cid were in messages exchanged with Sergeant Luis Marcos dos Reis, who was also arrested in early May during the operation investigating fraud in vaccination cards. This Wednesday Reis will be questioned by the federal police.

The material seized during the vaccination card operation resulted in a new investigation, which investigates the participation of the same group in the preparations for a coup. It was against this backdrop that Cid testified on Tuesday the 6th.

Source: Terra

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