Former minister leaves PF after almost 5 hours of testimony – 04/21/2023 – Politics

Former minister of the GSI (Institutional Security Office), reserve general Gonçalves Dias left the headquarters of the Federal Police this Friday (21) after giving a statement for about 4 hours and 30 minutes in the scope of the investigation that investigates the attack on seats of Powers on January 8.

The general arrived at the PF building around 9 am, accompanied by a driver and two other people, through the back gate. He left around 1:30 pm without speaking to the press.

The statement was taken after Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Federal Supreme Court), determined on Thursday (20) that Dias provide clarification on the GSI’s performance during the invasion of the Planalto Palace within 48 hours.

The decision was given a day after Gonçalves Dias was dismissed from the government in the wake of the crisis caused by the dissemination of videos from the internal security circuit of the Planalto Palace. It was the first dismissal at the top of the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) government.

The crisis that led to the departure of the head of the GSI was triggered by the disclosure, by CNN Brasil, of images of the internal security circuit during the invasion of the headquarters of the Presidency of the Republic, showing a collaborative action of agents with coup leaders and the presence of Gonçalves Days on site.

The general’s fate was sealed amid the refusal to release images of the invasion of Planalto.

A week after the January 8 attacks, the government released edited videos, in particular with excerpts that showed that the militants were allies of Bolsonaro. However, he refused a request from the Sheetvia the Access to Information Act, to release the entirety of the recordings.

According to the images of the invasion of Planalto, the coup leaders received water from the military and greeted GSI agents during the attacks. In the videos, General Gonçalves Dias himself walks around the third floor of the palace, in the anteroom of the President of the Republic’s office, while the acts took place on the floor below.

In the decision in which he ordered the deposition to be taken, Moraes classifies the images as “very serious” and said that they indicate the incompetent performance of the authorities responsible for the internal security of the Palácio do Planalto, “including the illicit and conniving omission of several GSI agents”. .

The fall of the commander of the GSI must make inevitable the creation of a CPI in Congress on the coup acts, which was already being demanded by the opposition under resistance from the Lula administration, which is now expected to change its strategy.