Jair Bolsonaro’s 2022 vice presidential candidate arrested preventively this Saturday for obstruction of justice
BRASÍLIA – After being discharged from hospital on the morning of Sunday 15th, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) commented on the arrest of retired general Walter Braga Netto, which took place on Saturday morning, and declared that the soldier must be punished “severely” if his participation in the coup attempt is confirmed.
“I think he has every right to the presumption of innocence. What I didn’t have, I want them to have. But if these guys did what they tried to do, they will have to be severely punished,” Lula said in a conference press. press conference at the Syro-Lebanese Hospital.
Lula also said he had “patience” with the Braga Netto case and regretted that a four-star general participated in a plot against the authorities. He also referred to the militants killed by the military dictatorship: “In this country there were people who did 10% of what they did and who were killed in prison. It is not possible for us to accept the lack of respect for democracy, for the Constitution, and to admit that in a generous country like Brazil, we have people of high military rank plotting the death of the President of the Republic, his vice president and a Supreme Court judge.”
Lula also said he has a clearer idea of his health problem after the surgery he underwent last week. He underwent a follow-up tomography scan on Sunday and is expected to undergo another similar test on Thursday, but professionals say he is stable, walking normally and has had an excellent post-operative period, as expected.
Indicted by the Federal Police (PF) as part of the investigation into an attempted democratic rupture following the electoral defeat of the then president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Braga Netto was previously arrested Saturday for obstruction of justice. He is the first four-star general arrested after the country’s redemocratization. He was minister of Civil Housing and Defense and Bolsonaro’s vice-presidential candidate in 2022.
Braga Netto had his arrest maintained by Judge Rafael Henrique Janela Tamai Rocha, assistant to the minister’s cabinet Alexander of Moraes node Federal Supreme Court (STF)after the custody hearing via videoconference. The general’s defense stated that it will prove that he did not act to impede the investigation of the PF.
Ordering the general’s arrest, Moraes said there are “strong indications” that Braga Netto contributed more effectively and more than initially known to the planning and financing of the coup attempt that aimed to keep Jair Bolsonaro in office. candies. The decision was made with the support of the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet.
Bolsonaro parliamentarians reacted on social media in protest at Braga Netto’s arrest and ignored suspicions that the military had forced witnesses, as the federal police report highlights. Federal deputies and senators from the PL demonstrated throughout the morning. They spread a version according to which the country is experiencing democratic erosion and claim that prison is an offense and a humiliation for the Armed Forces. There is also criticism of the current military leadership, appointed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
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Source: Terra
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