Bolsonaro supporters who attacked Brasilia a year ago planned to hang a Supreme Court judge

Radical followers of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who carried out a series of brutal attacks on government headquarters in Brasilia on January 8, 2023, in an attempt to force military intervention, planned to hang Judge Alexandre de Moraes, President of Brazil. Supreme Electoral Court, TSE and rapporteur at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) on several claims against the former ruler. The judge himself said this in an interview published this Thursday by the newspaper. globe.

“The conspirators had three plans. One of them, the most heated, argued that after the coup I should be arrested and hanged in Praça dos Tres Poderes (in Brasilia, where the Federal Supreme Court, the Congress and the Palacio are located). Planalto, residence of the President of the Republic). This shows the degree of aggressiveness and hatred of these people who do not know how to distinguish between an individual and an institution. There was an attempt at planning (a hanging in a public square “) and there is another investigation looking into this, also involving ABIN (Brazilian Intelligence Agency, “Brazil’s secret”, closely commanded by Bolsonaro), which monitored my actions when the need arose in my arrest,” the magistrate said during an interview, revealing details of the investigation that are still unknown.

Moraes became Jair Bolsonaro’s number one enemy by preventing the then-President of Brazil from governing autocratically and making dictatorial decisions that violated the Constitution between 2019 and 2022, and became the target of vicious verbal attacks from the then-ruler, whom he publicly called a “scoundrel” and ” tramp,” and on social networks he became a daily target for Bolsonista thugs. But it was not yet known that the plans of the radicals who attacked Brasilia included the murder of the magistrate, who in an interview said that in addition to hanging, one of the three predicted hypotheses, one of the other two also predicted his death.

“The first plan was that army special forces would arrest me on Sunday and take me to some place in Goiânia (the capital of the state of Goiás, near Brasilia, where the elite and traditionally right-wing armed forces are based in barracks). “Secondly, the body will be disposed of halfway to Goiania. Then it will not be quite an arrest, but a murder,” the magistrate added.

Also, Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur at the STF on the trials related to the January 8 attacks, which were aimed at military action to return power to Bolsonaro, who was defeated by Lula in the 2022 presidential elections, was accused of more than 1,300 extremists arrested on the day of the attacks. attacks in the following weeks and has already sentenced 30 of them to prison terms of up to 17 years. Last June, this time as president of the electoral justice system, Moraes led a lawsuit that disqualified Jair Bolsonaro from running in elections until 2030, derailing his plan to run for president again in 2026.