January 8th CPI will give work – 04/22/2023 – Elio Gaspari

On Wednesday, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry of January 8 should be installed. It has all the elements to show the obvious: the Planalto, Congress and the Federal Supreme Court were invaded by a crowd calling for a coup d’état against Lula’s government.

Despite this, the PT commissioner got involved, trying to manage an implausible parallel reality. In it, it was pretended that the security blackout in Brasilia occurred beyond its reach.

The government continued to cultivate the parallel reality last week, when it said that reserve general Gonçalves Dias “left on his own” as head of the Institutional Security Cabinet. He had to leave after the release, by reporter Leandro Magalhães, of the videos recorded by the Planalto cameras on January 8. They showed the blackout cordiality in the hacked GSI.

These videos, captured by 22 cameras, totaled 165 hours, occupying 250 gigabytes of memory and were under the custody of the GSI. In April, he denied access to the CPI of the Brasília District Chamber, stating that the task was impossible, given the size of the material.

Patranha, not only because it could be copied in a few hours, but also because a week after the Planalto invasion a part of the Planalto videos had been released.

According to Gonçalves Dias, all the videos were handed over to the authorities investigating the events. No cameras were broken or turned off. They show, for example, that the 19th century Planalto clock was knocked over at 3:33 pm, replaced at 3:43 pm and knocked down again at 4:12 pm.

Gonçalves Dias told reporter Delis Ortiz that he arrived in Planalto when the demonstration passed by the Ministry of Justice. Soon afterwards he reported that, upon arriving at the palace, it was already invaded. The head of the Institutional Security office was not at the palace. Enough.

(It is worth remembering that, the day before, G. Dias had dismissed the reinforcement of the Presidential Guard Battalion. On the 8th, this troop remained inert in critical moments.)

Since the day before, it was known that hundreds of buses had arrived in Brasília. Protesters calling for a coup d’état had been camped outside the Army HQ for weeks. On social networks, monitored by the government, people were invited to the “Selma party”.

At 9:30 am that morning, a message informed: “You don’t have to invade anything, unless it’s time to eat Selma’s party cake”.

Selma’s cake was eaten between 3 pm and 3:25 pm, with the invasion of Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Court. Stupendous synchronism.

It was established that there was a security blackout in Brasilia that day. It was also relatively synchronic, and the investigation by the Federal Police and STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes gathered data to clarify the two synchronisms.

At 5:55 pm, Lula decreed federal intervention in public security in Brasília. The president dismissed several suggestions that he enact a Law and Order Guarantee regime, turning the matter over to a military commander.

This idea was defended by allies, such as the Minister of Defense, José Múcio, and also by opponents, such as senator and reserve general Hamilton Mourão. Lula smelled the coup in GLO.

So far, the best survey of the events of January 8th came from the security intervenor in Brasilia, Ricardo Capelli, current interim head of the Institutional Security Cabinet. In it, you can see a part of who did what and who didn’t do what, before and during the invasions.

On Thursday, April 20, Capelli identified for Minister Alexandre de Moraes the civil and military servants who were in the palace on the 8th. G. Dias should have done this months ago.

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Whatever the government, the head of the security service knows, and guards, the holders’ secrets.
General G. Dias headed Lula’s security during his first two governments.
In the last four years, with Bolsonaro in the Presidency, G. Dias showed that he had a good memory.

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After leaving office, reserve general G. Dias gave an interview to reporter Delis Ortiz. From her, he recalled his 40 years of service to the Army, defended his morals and criticized the report by Leandro Magalhães, who exposed his movements in Planalto on January 8th. All good.

On the same day, the general should have appeared at the Public Safety Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to talk about January 8, but he missed it, presenting a medical certificate from the Health Coordination of the Presidency.

His clinical condition would require medication and observation, “and he must be absent from commitments justified by health reasons”.

Nines apart from the bad Portuguese, the patient and the doctor who signed the piece were bad.

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