The chronology of events in the Federal Police operation that protected Moro casts suspicion on the senator's politicization of the matter.
Gabriela Hardt, Moro's replacement in Lava Jato who handed down sentences that were later overturned by the Supreme Court due to bias, ordered the operation after the president's interview with TV 247.
247 - On January 20, 2023, former judge and senator-elect for Paraná, Sérgio Moro, was informed by the Organized Crime Monitoring and Response Group (Gaeco) of São Paulo and the Federal Police that a plan to kidnap and possibly assassinate him had been detected through monitoring cells of the criminal faction PCC – Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital). The legislative police of the Chamber of Deputies (Rosângela, Moro's wife, is a federal deputy for São Paulo) and the Senate were also notified. The monitoring continued accurately and silently until yesterday morning.
Last Friday, March 17Federal Judge Gabriela Hardt took over as substitute judge for the Federal Court of Paraná, where the integrated action of the Federal, Legislative, and São Paulo police forces was being coordinated. The monitoring remained inactive. On Tuesday morning, around... 11h30minIn an interview with TV 247, broadcast live on the portal's YouTube channel, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva revealed, in a transparent and direct manner, what he said to Lava Jato prosecutors in Paraná who were engaging in a kind of judicial "bullying" against him while he was unjustly imprisoned at the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba due to a sentence by Moro, considered biased and improper by the Supreme Federal Court. "I want Moro to go f*** himself!", the now-President of the Republic recounted, describing his reaction at that time. The excerpt is a mere 7 seconds long in a rich interview about Politics, Government, and Human Behavior that lasted 1 hour, 42 minutes, and 47 seconds.
Immediately after Lula's imprecations aired, at 11h30min from yesterday, Tuesday, March 21th, 2023Inappropriate and biased edits of that excerpt from his speech began to circulate on the social media profiles of Bolsonaro supporters and far-right leaders – including Senator Sérgio Moro himself, Rosângela Moro, and Congressman Deltan Dallagnol (Podemos-PR).
At 11h49min same day March 21Judge Gabriela Hardt signed the search and seizure and arrest warrants for the operation to protect Moro, which had been requested since January of this year. At 12:47 PM On the same day, the warrants were included in e-Proc, the network through which actions are ordered. 14h33min from yesterday, March 21Senator Sérgio Moro went on CNN and said that, with the interview and the reminiscence of his (unjust) imprisonment in Curitiba, the President of the Republic was "putting his life at risk." Upon leaving the CNN cameras, Moro tweeted similar content on social media.
Wednesday, March 22The day dawned with the Federal Police, commanded by Justice Minister Flávio Dino, in the streets executing all arrest and search warrants against PCC criminals or those linked to the criminal faction who threatened to kidnap and kill Moro. The senator, his wife, and his political allies, however, had been since early morning retweeting and provoking messages linking Lula's 7-second transparent interview on TV 247 to a bizarre and nonexistent action to foment and encourage crime. While serving as Justice Minister under then-President Jair Bolsonaro, Senator Sérgio Moro never acted to curb the pro-gun rhetoric and practices of his former boss and his sons.