Federal police discover that Lula’s security colonel was involved in coup plots

In a new episode that chronicles the infiltration of military supporters of Jair Bolsonaro into circles close to Lula da Silva, federal police have discovered that a Lieutenant Colonel of the bodyguards of the current President of Brazil was involved in a WhatsApp group that planned to stage a coup d’état against the agent. The official accompanied Lula on five international trips before it became known that he was a supporter of Bolsonaro.

In a report submitted by the Federal Police to the President of the Republic, which led to the officer’s immediate dismissal, the corporation alleges that Lieutenant Colonel André Luis Cruz Correia was part of a group of senior military officers who discussed organizing a coup d’état last year, following the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro in the October presidential election. , in order to prevent the inauguration of the winner Lula da Silva on January 1 this year.

In this group, adds the Federal Police, attacks were also planned against members of the highest courts, mainly Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who at the same time is pursuing cases against Jair Bolsonaro in the Federal Supreme Court, STF and the President of the Supreme Court Eleitoral, TSE, who is two months ago, sentenced the former head of state to an eight-year ban, excluding him from the 2026 presidential race.

Lt. Col. Correia’s connection to Bolsonaro’s radical groups was discovered during investigations by federal mobile phone experts also of Lt. Col. Mauro Cid, who was an aide to then-President Jair Bolsonaro for four years.

Thanks to this investigation, the Federal Police have already uncovered other extremist military groups who have formulated a democratic divide to prevent Lula da Silva from taking office and perpetuate Bolsonaro in power as a dictator, which did not happen only because the general officers of the Armed Forces of the Force did not agree to participate.

The now acquitted officer, whom the army had refused to punish in favor of appointing him to a new position in the General Command, had personally taken care of Lula’s safety since the end of March, when he was transferred from Bahia, where he served. and was placed under presidential protection in a maneuver that raised many questions, and until this week had planned all of the presidential protection on national and international travel. He has been close to Lula, having unlimited access to the president, such as during recent trips to Belgium, Colombia and Argentina.

Since Lula da Silva took office, dozens of military personnel, including several generals and other senior officers, have been exonerated from the Cabinet of Institutional Security, GSI, the body in charge of presidential security, for liaising with the former president, and even for attacks on institutions. . .

Some of these military personnel, removed by the new government, were caught facilitating the entry of thousands of ultra-radical Bolsonarists who, on January 8, while Lula was in power, brutally invaded and vandalized Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the presidential palace, demanding that the Armed Forces take over and return Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency.