“Do not infantilize this Commission”. With these words, the rapporteur for the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Acts of January 8, 2023 (CPMI do Golpe), Senator Eliziane Gama (PSD-MA), countered the statements made by Army Colonel Jean Lawand Júnior, heard this Tuesday. fair (27). Lawand was summoned by the commission due to the content of messages exchanged with the former aide-de-camp of the Presidency of the Republic in the Bolsonaro government, army lieutenant colonel Mauro Cid. In the messages collected by the Federal Police, the colonel asks Cid to ask Bolsonaro to “give the order”. “Citizen [referência a Mauro Cid], for God’s sake, do something, man. convince him [ex-presidente Bolsonaro] to do. He can’t back down now. He has nothing to lose. He will be arrested. The President will be arrested. And worse, in Papuda, man “, said Lawand on December 1, 2022. In response, the former aide said that Bolsonaro cannot give the order because ” he does not trust ACE [Auto Comando do Exército]”. “Then screwed. It will have to be for the people”, concluded Lawand. In the justification presented to the CPMI, the military said that his idea was that the then president Jair Bolsonaro could “appease” the moods in the face of coup acts that called for military intervention in front of the barracks and on the country’s highways. “My idea, from the beginning, from the first message with Lieutenant Colonel Cid, was that some demonstration would come to be able to appease that and people could return to their homes and carry on with normal life. The ex-president had a leadership over the population, at least his electorate”, explained the military. Then, the reporter asks the colonel about another message. “You say the following: ‘he has to give the order, brother. There’s no way it can’t be fulfilled’. Later on you say: ‘the Brazilian Army will do nothing because it will be seen as a coup; so it’s in the president’s hands’. Could you explain why you understand that the coup would be legitimized if it came at the hands of the then president?”, questioned the senator. The colonel again defended that it was not a request for a coup. “At no time did I foresee this coup. My mission, my intention was always to make Colonel Cid understand that a demonstration by the president was coming and that demonstration would make people return to their homes”, he reaffirmed. The senator then questions the veracity of this information. “You cannot infantilize this commission. Here, as they say in my Maranhão, the best man managed to get elected federal deputy, senator or senator. The placements are incompatible with the content of the messages that you yourself wrote”, said Eliziane. Without troops Laland also justified that he would have neither troops nor political influence to try to promote a coup d’état in Brazil. “My job is a bureaucratic job. I had four subordinates. The only thing is that I had contact with Cid to understand what was going on. I had neither the motivation, nor the capacity, nor the strength to carry out any attack, let alone motivate people to do so.” The colonel is head of the Army Projects office. “My mission is, from a desk with a computer, to command four subordinates to make this program progress”, he added. Jean Lawand had been selected to be assistant to the Military Attaché of the Brazilian Army in Washington. His trip to the US capital, however, was suspended after the discovery of messages exchanged with Lieutenant Colonel Cid. The colonel’s argument was also refuted by rapporteur Eliziane Gama. “You were a year and six months away from the position to assume, for example, the rank of general. His office, which you, in fact, belonged to the General Staff, has a strategic function: to plan and coordinate institutional relations actions, that is, you cannot say that his position had no influence. I mean, their speeches and their positions are undone with the information that is in front of us”, countered the parliamentarian. Company in Atibaia Rapporteur Eliziane Gama, at the end of the interrogation, stated that one of Colonel Jean Lawand’s personal addresses, located in the municipality of Atibaia (SP), is the same as that of a company linked to other companies owned by Argino Bendin and one of the Lawand’s daughters as owners. Bedin is investigated for financing coup acts. The military said he had never heard of the company cited by the rapporteur. According to Eliziane Gama, “the address of this company, which, according to the surveys we have, in fact, is not a company owned by you, but the address of this company, you use as information elements throughout some moments of its history ”, The colonel made his secrets available to clarify this fact. “I do not remember. I make available the breach of my banking, tax, telephone secrecy, everything, because, really, at no time did I associate an address of mine with this one… I don’t even know which company this is”, he concluded.
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