On this 13th of September, in the Supreme Federal Court, retired Justice Sebastião Coelho took the podium reserved for the defense attorney to undertake an impossible mission: to save sanitation technician Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51 years old, from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, from conviction. He is the first in a long line of defendants made up of Brazilians accused of involvement in the attacks on the seats of the three branches that occurred on January 8th. Prohibited from attending the trial in the courtroom, the client heard in a cell the lawyer’s message: the decision would be political. Although he knows that even undeniable material evidence counts for less than zero in decisions as predictable as the changing of seasons, Coelho included legal arguments in his oral submission. He pointed out, for example, that it is not possible to see a coup d’état in the vandalism of buildings and objects belonging to public property.
“The weapons we have in this process are pocket knives, marbles, and axes,” the lawyer recalled. “There was no military unit on standby. Who would take over power if there was a coup">Ministers Alexandre de Moraes and Luís Roberto Barroso during the plenary session of the STF to judge those accused of January 8th (14/9/2023) | Photo: Rosinei Coutinho/SCO/STF
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Mesmo artigo foi publicado em Português – é só olhar nos artigos do Augusto Nunes
What is the matter with you, Augusto? I´d rather read you in Portuguese. By the way, were is your text this week? We all miss you.
Também prefiro.
Same article has been published in Portuguese: scroll down. English translation is a great tool of Revista Oeste to expand its boundaries, and to allow every country in the world to know what is happening to Brazilian democracy, that has more political prisoners than any other country in the world.