Two radical followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro who last December tried to detonate a bomb attached to a fuel truck at Brasilia International Airport were convicted this Thursday in a court in the Brazilian federal capital.
George Washington de Oliveira Souza was sentenced to 9 years and 4 months in prison and Alan Diego dos Santos Rodriguez to 5 years and 4 months.
Judge of the 8th Criminal Court of the Brasilia Court, Osvaldo Tovani, who handed down the verdict, denied a request by the two defendants’ lawyers to allow them to await their appeals at large.
George Washington and Alan Diego have been in prison since last year, and the magistrate judges that both are clearly too dangerous to be released because they pose a high risk to society.
George, the mastermind behind the attack, and Diego built a powerful bomb connected to a remote detonator, and on December 24 last year, on Christmas Eve, they attached it to a jet fuel truck waiting at one of the entrances. from Brasilia Airport to refuel aircraft.
The only reason the attack did not cause a tragedy on a grand scale, with tens or hundreds of deaths, was that the tanker truck driver, who had gone off to grab a bite to eat while waiting for his turn to exit the runway, called the police when he was surprised he I saw a cardboard box with wires sticking out of it and called the police.
The goal that the two perpetrators then confessed to was precisely to provoke a great tragedy with the greatest possible number of victims, sow chaos in the Brazilian capital, force the armed forces to intervene and prevent the inauguration of the then president-elect. , Lula da Silva Silva, January 1, and keep Jair Bolsonaro in power even though he lost the presidential election.
George Washington told police he was inspired by Bolsonaro’s consistent claims that the presidential election was rigged to defeat him and give Lula a victory, and that something needed to be done to prevent Brazil, as Bolsonaro repeated, from falling into the hands of communism.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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