2023-06-28 16:16:00
Army Colonel Jean Lawand Júnior appeared before the Parliamentary Investigation Commission (CPI) of the events of January 8 with a list of reminders of how to behave during the scrutiny, among them “control yourself” and put on a “calmer face”.
The notes also oriented him: eat, don’t gesticulate, don’t lose your temper, keep your hands together, pray and don’t betray. When questioned about this last statement, he replied that he wanted to write not “make faces”, instead of not “give away”, words that in Portuguese can be confused because of his closeness.
The soldier was summoned to testify as a witness and, as defined by the Federal Supreme Court Minister Cármen Lúcia, he could remain silent if he so wished so as not to produce evidence against him.
A Federal Police report on the cell phone of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s main assistant, Colonel Mauro Cid, was the evidence that put Laward Júnior in the ICC’s sights of the invasion of the headquarters of the three Powers that occurred at the beginning of anus.
Colonel Lawand is Cid’s main interlocutor in messages found by the Federal Police and asks him to convince Bolsonaro to “save this country!” In his testimony, Lawand Júnior denied having suggested to Cid that the then president carry out a coup.
Translated by José Alberto Gutiérrez
#Colonel #coup #messages #appears #Commission #Brazil