Mauro Cid: the coup plan included orders to 'arrest everyone'
Bolsonaro's allies, who were attempting an institutional rupture, advocated for the imprisonment of other leaders, not just Supreme Court justices.
247 - Former aide to Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid stated that one version of the coup-plotting draft discussed by the then-president in the waning days of 2022 had an extensive list of authorities to be imprisoned, and not only the ministers of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes and Gilmar Mendes, in addition to the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG).
Investigators are looking into who the names on the list might be. The investigations to determine the targets of the arrest warrants may involve cross-referencing information with the 'parallel ABIN' investigation, concerning clandestine surveillance carried out by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency during the Bolsonaro administration. The Federal Police had stated that approximately... 30 illegal espionage operations They were identified.
According to information published this Saturday (9) by VejaBetween November and December 2022, Mauro Cid stated that "the document had several pages of 'considerations,' which depicted the interference of the Judiciary in the Executive branch and, in the end, a decree that determined several orders that arrested everyone."
The colonel stated that Bolsonaro "wanted to pressure the Armed Forces to find out what they thought of the current situation." The lieutenant discussed the creation of the list during a meeting with the then advisor for International Affairs, Filipe Martins, and with the lawyer Amauri Saad.
Bolsonaro is ineligible to run for office following a decision by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) last year for questioning, without evidence, the security of the Brazilian electoral system against fraud.