US EditionBrazil’s Supreme Court sentences military officials for planning to kill Lula
Nine high-ranking military officers and a federal police officer received prison terms up to 24 years for a plot to assassinate Brazil's president and overturn the 2022 election.
- On Tuesday, the Brazilian Supreme Court panel convicted high-ranking military officials and a federal police officer of plotting to kill President Lula, with sentences up to 24 years.
- The plot sought to keep Jair Bolsonaro in power despite his 2022 presidential election loss and was linked to the so-called 'Green and Yellow Dagger,' with Bolsonaro sentenced for leading it.
- The plot stalled when the Army commander withheld support, and Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet said last week that a 10-member group planned to kill Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
- Those convicted will only begin serving time once appeals are exhausted; the panel recently rejected an appeal and Jair Bolsonaro's appeal was rejected Friday, while Justice Flávio Dino warned Brazil 'flirted with and almost fell into a chasm of institutional darkness'.
- That triggered a sharp deterioration in U.S.-Brazil relations described as the lowest point in their more than 200-year history, but relations later improved after Lula and Trump spoke and met last month in Malaysia.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Sentences Military Officers over Plot to Kill Lula
Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced high-ranking military officials and a federal police officer to up to 24 years in prison after finding them guilty for an assassination attempt against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It follows a similar ruling back in September against former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for a coup attempt against President Lula. Earlier this month, Brazil’s Supreme…
Brasilia. Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (TSF) yesterday sentenced three military commanders and a police officer to up to 24 years’ imprisonment for planning the assassination of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022.
The court considers three military officers and one police officer guilty of planning the murder of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a coup attempt in favour of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced three former lieutenant colonels and a police officer to 21 to 24 years in prison for plotting to assassinate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before he takes office after winning the 2022 election, the French news agency AFP reported.
In 2022 Brazil barely escaped a coup, instigated by ex-president Bolsonaro. His successor Lula should have died too. For this plan, four participants must now be imprisoned for a long time.
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