Major says scammers demanded water during plateau vandalism

Army Major José Eduardo Natali, who was stationed at the Institutional Security Office (GSI) on the day of the January 8 coup acts, said in a statement to the Federal Police (PF) that he handed bottles of water to the vandals to calm them down and prevent them from breaking the installations of a pantry. Natali and eight other military personnel testified to the PF last Sunday (23) after the release of images from the cameras inside the Planalto Palace during the action of the coup leaders. In the recording, the major appears giving water to the invaders. The testimonies were sent today (25) to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), rapporteur for the investigations on January 8. To investigators, the major said he was alone at the time recorded by the cameras and said he asked the coup plotters to leave the building. “That at another time, he went towards the pantry, got some water and soon 3 or 4 demonstrators appeared who were excited. The demonstrators questioned in an exalted way [que] place was that one, on which occasion he replied that it was a pantry. Which then the protesters demanded to give them water. That the declarant delivered some bottles of water in order to calm them down and not to damage the pantry and also asked them to leave the place. That the declarant was alone until the moment. Without any public agent for approximately an hour and that during this period he remained in contact with his superiors asking for reinforcement and updating them on the situation of the invasion, ”says the statement. He also told delegates that he infiltrated the vandals when he was told that “security had collapsed” and that he was harassed by the coup plotters. “Which was then informed by the colonel that the security of the PP [Palácio do Planalto] had collapsed. That he removed his jacket, tie and pistol to infiltrate the Palace taken over by the protesters, in order to contain damage, as well as to avoid the theft of his weapon, since he was alone ”, he declared. Orange alert Natali also confirmed that, for that day, there was an orange security alert by the agency’s risk assessment sector. According to him, the degree corresponds to the third level of risk, in a total of five. “That by way of example, the presidential inauguration event was red or black level (4th or 5th level). That for the level of orange criticality, the staff expected was a platoon, comprising about 30 to 40 people on standby at the Planalto Palace (on the 8th the platoon arrived around 12:00 h)”, says an excerpt from the statement. Gonçalves Dias The lieutenant colonel of the Federal District Fire Brigade Marcos Vinícius Braz de Camargo, who worked as a parliamentary advisor for the GSI, also testified that he met the former minister of the GSI Gonçalves Dias in the building during the depredation. “And the declarant met with the gen. Gonçalves Dias on the third floor and tried to find out if he was okay, to which the general replied that he had almost been attacked by a demonstrator, ”he said. Last Wednesday (19), Dias resigned from his post after images released by CNN Brasil showed him and other GSI employees inside the Planalto Palace. accelerate the exchange of servers that remain in the body since the last government. Cappelli also reported that about 35% of the servers have been changed since the beginning of the new government.

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