Without an opinion from the PGR, the minister says that there is no evidence of crime in Lula’s speeches about the plan to kidnap Senator Sérgio Moro.| Photo: André Borges/EFE

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered the shelving of two crime news that called for the investigation of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) for calling into question the operation that discovered a plan to kidnap the senator Sérgio Moro (União Brasil-PR) by the criminal faction PCC (First Command of the Capital).

The requests were made by Senator Rogério Marinho (PL-RN) and Federal Deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) a day after Lula stated that the plan discovered by the Federal Police could be a “framing”, without citing any evidence for the distrust.

In the decision published this Thursday (30), Moraes decided to file the complaint due to the lack of evidence confirming the commission of a crime by the president, without an opinion from the PGR.

“In view of the above, due to the absence of minimal evidence of the occurrence of a criminal offense, I determine the immediate filing of this representation. […] Contact the representative and the represented with a copy of the decision. Science to the Attorney General’s Office”, he said for the two requests (see here and here).

Rogério Marinho asked that Lula’s speech be included in the so-called fake news inquiry, for spreading false information and disinformation with “flagrant content of hate, subversion of order and incentive to break institutional and democratic normality”. He also cites, in the same action, a statement given by the president that he intended to take revenge on Moro when he was imprisoned in the Federal Police jail in Curitiba.

Same tone adopted by Nikolas Ferreira in the representation to the STF, that Lula acted “in an irresponsible and frivolous way” when saying that “the whole operation was set up by the former Lava-Jato judge and current Senator, Mr. Sergio Moro”.