Mauro Cid’s defense asks for filing of action on silence at the CPMI

The defense of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid asked this Friday (14) that the Federal Court of the Federal District dismiss the action filed by the CPMI on January 8 against the military man for alleged “abuse of the right to silence”. Cid, who served as an assistant to former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), chose to remain silent during his testimony to the CPMI. He refused, for example, to give his age.

Cid attended the collegiate session supported by a habeas corpus, granted by the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which guaranteed him the right to remain silent in situations that could produce evidence against him.

This Thursday (13), the commission went to court against the alleged abuse of the right provided for in the Court’s decision. Cid’s defense argued that the action represents an attempt to criminalize the right to silence, reported the portal g1.

In addition, the lawyers say that CPMI members tried to coerce the military to speak. The defense considered that during the hearing Cid was constrained “through the most varied inquisitive techniques of psychological pressure, in order to mislead him and, consequently, seek to break his full defense exercise”.