The Brazilian Federal Police this Tuesday dismantled a criminal organization, mostly composed of soldiers trained by the Special Forces, that was planning to assassinate the country’s current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and thus prevent him from taking office after his victory in the elections. of 2022.
The plan, which the Federal Police reported, also included the murder of Lula’s running mate and current vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, and that of the judge of the Supreme Federal Court, Alexandre de Moraes, to “restrict the free exercise of the Judicial Power.” .
Moraes is the instructor of the process that investigates the coup acts of January 8, 2023, when thousands of followers of the former president and leader of the extreme right, Jair Bolsonaro, assaulted the headquarters of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court of Brazil in a attempt to force a coup, of state against Lula.
Police investigations indicate that the coup operation, called “Green and Yellow Dagger”, was intended to be carried out on December 15, 2022, 45 days after the candidacy of Lula and Alckmin, of the leftist Workers’ Party, won. with 51% of the votes in the Brazilian presidential elections.
The 221-page file collects information from a messaging group called ‘Copa 2022’ within the Signal application, where each of those involved identified themselves with country names to protect their true identities.
There, the report says, there was a document called ‘Green and Yellow Dagger’ which contained the details of the acts supposedly planned by the criminal group made up mostly of military personnel.
The main person identified as the organizer of this operation – one of the five military detainees arrested this Tuesday – is General Mário Fernandes, advisor to the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who, according to the document, at the time of the events was acting secretary general of the Presidency.
“For the execution of President Lula”, who is addressed under the name ‘Jeca’, the use of a poison or chemicals “to cause an organic collapse” was considered, considering “his health vulnerabilities and frequent hospital admissions”, research tells.
The criminal plan included the installation of an “institutional crisis management office” of which those involved would have been part, and detailed “the human and military resources necessary” to carry out the murder, with “a high level of knowledge.” technical-military”, according to the Brazilian Police.
The Secretary General of the Presidency, Márcio Macêdo, stated after the dissemination of the police information that “there will be no tolerance for those who attack the democratic rule of law” in a conversation with journalists within the framework of the G20 Summit.
“State agents who act against democracy are the thing of bandits, of criminals,” said Macêdo. Another statement came from the Minister of Communication of the Brazilian government, Paulo Pimenta, who also within the framework of the G20 told journalists that the attempted attack was a “concrete action” that was not verified only for a matter of “detail”.
Pimenta said that the dismantled illicit operation “provides extremely serious new elements about the participation of people from the core of power of the Bolsonaro government in the coup.” The ‘Operation Countercoup’ launched by the Police this Tuesday includes preventive detention orders, search and seizure orders and precautionary measures such as the prohibition of leaving the country. Those involved could be tried for the crimes of violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état and criminal organization.
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