“Brazil experienced a coordinated coup attempt, not an improvisation by extremists,” says Pedro Serrano
A lawyer claims that the attack on institutions was planned and that democracy remains threatened by conservative sectors within the Judiciary.
247 - Brazilian jurist Pedro Serrano, a professor of Constitutional Law, harshly criticized the conduct of Minister Luiz Fux and reaffirmed that there is no doubt that Brazil experienced an attempted coup d'état, led by Jair Bolsonaro. The statement was made during an interview with... good night 247, amid the conclusion of the trial of core group 4 of the attempted coup in the First Chamber of the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
"No one with even a modicum of balance and common sense doubts that there was an attempted coup d'état in Brazil. And that it was orchestrated by the former president of the Republic," Serrano emphasized.
According to the jurist, the Federal Police investigations made it clear that there was coordination between the military, public agents, and civilians to establish a dictatorship in the country. “The facts are very clear. There is an 800-page report showing that a criminal organization existed in Brazil that attempted to establish a dictatorship. And it wasn't going to stop at the president, the vice-president, and the Supreme Court justices—they were going to kill people,” he declared.
Pedro Serrano described Luiz Fux's stance in the trial of those involved in fake news and the attempted coup of January 8th as "contradictory and worrying."
“He has been acting as a militant, an organic intellectual of right-wing and far-right causes,” Serrano stated, highlighting that Fux's request to move to the Second Chamber — which includes ministers appointed by Bolsonaro, such as André Mendonça and Kassio Nunes Marques — could consolidate a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. “It may be that he wants to move to another chamber to consolidate a power center there. It's worrying, because the Supreme Court is not a parliament; it has to act according to standards of conduct,” he assessed.
Serrano also criticized what he called the "minimization of the attempted coup" by some sectors of the Judiciary.
“An attempted coup is never an isolated act. It’s a script, a series of acts. That’s what happened in Brazil. And everyone who participated, directly or indirectly, has criminal responsibility,” he explained.
The jurist argued that the convictions have an educational role: “Every citizen needs to know that participating in any stage of an attempt to break with democracy has consequences. It is very serious. This is the message that needs to remain for future generations.”