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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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.
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.
Chicago Tribune
By ELÉONORE HUGHES RÍO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A panel of judges of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil sentenced high-ranking military officers and a federal police officer on Tuesday to up to 24 years in prison after they were found guilty of participating in an attempted coup d'état that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other officials. Former President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced in September to 27 years and t…
Observador
DnoticiasNine of the ten accused were sentenced to prison sentences between one and 24 years by "a blow that would take and kill people, divorce the Constitution, citizenship and free press," the judge told the rapporteur.
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