The defense of former presidential adviser Filipe Martins will attribute responsibility for the attempted coup at the end of Jair Bolsonaro’s government to Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid.
Martins will begin his trial this Tuesday (9) before the STF (Federal Supreme Court), within the framework of core 2 of the putschist plot, the last remaining.
He is accused of having drawn up the so-called coup plan, which he has always denied. During the pleadings, which will last up to 1 hour at the start of the trial, the former advisor’s lawyers intend to present new elements.
The main ones are documents collected in the file which would demonstrate that the Cid, the whistleblower in the affair, had started preparing the project from the second round of the election, more precisely on October 25, five days before the vote.
Another document, dated November 28 of the same year, allegedly shows that Cid presented the document during a meeting with members of the army’s special forces, the so-called Black Children.
“Mauro Cid is the only one who wants to carry out a coup. It’s his plan. When he’s afraid of being discovered, he creates a narrative and tries to make Filipe responsible,” explains lawyer Jeffrey Chiquini, who defends the former presidential adviser.
This position reflects a change in defense strategy, which denied the existence of a coup. The new argument is that there was a project and an attempt to break the constitutional order, but promoted by the Cid.
According to Chiquini, this is due to the discovery of new documents during the process, made possible by the use of more powerful computers to analyze the more than 70 terabytes of data from the federal police investigation.
Martins is accused of participating in a meeting at the Palácio da Alvorada on December 7 during which the project was discussed. The former councilor denies attending the meeting and claims his entry records were falsified.
For Chiquini, the Cid is also responsible for the fraud in the registers. “He falsified the information to make Filipe responsible for the coup that he tried to carry out and which failed,” says the lawyer.
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