Moro questions Lula: ‘Don’t you have decency?’ – 03/23/2023 – Power

Senator Sergio Moro (União Brasil-PR) criticized this Thursday (23) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) for implying that the plan of the PCC (First Command of the Capital) to commit an attack against he.

“Don’t you have decency? Aren’t you ashamed of this behavior of yours? Don’t you respect the liturgy of office? Don’t you respect the suffering of an innocent family?”, said Moro in an interview with CNN Brasil.

Earlier, Lula stated that he thought that the PCC’s plan could be a set-up by Moro, but that he had no proof of that.

“I’m not going to talk about it because I think it’s another set up by Moro. I want to be cautious, I’ll find out what happened. But it’s clear that it’s a set up by Moro,” said Lula, who also said he was suspicious of the performance of judge Gabriela Hardt in the case.

“But that’s going to wait. I’m not going to attack anyone without having proof. I think it’s another set-up. And if it’s another set-up, he’s going to be exposed even more. I don’t know what he’s going to do with his life if he keeps lying like this that he’s lying,” he added.

On Tuesday (21), Lula said that, when arrested in Curitiba, he kept thinking of ways to “fuck” Moro’s life.

The current senator was the judge of the Lava Jato task force that, in April 2018, ordered the arrest of Lula, who intended to run for president in that year’s elections against Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who won the election. The conviction ended up annulled by the STF (Federal Supreme Court) in 2021.

The former judge became Bolsonaro’s Minister of Justice and later, in 2019, an investigation by The Intercept website revealed messages exchanged between him and the then prosecutor in the case, federal deputy Deltan Dallagnol (Podemos-PR), which show that the two exchanged collaborations. and shared information about Lula’s case during the investigations.

Still this Thursday afternoon, Moro denied that the case was a frame on his part and released videos stating that he learned of the PCC’s plan against him and his family at the end of January, through the São Paulo Public Ministry.

“If something happens to my family, the responsibility lies with this president, who laughed,” said the senator. “If the president has no regard for me, for human life, I at least ask him to respect my family.”

On the other hand, opponents of the government tried to associate the PCC’s plan with Lula for the previous speech about “fucking” the former judge.

Bolsonaro, without indications or proof, also sought to relate the action of the PF (Federal Police) this Wednesday to the stab wound he suffered in Juiz de Fora (MG), in 2018, and to the murder of the former mayor of Santo André (SP) Celso Daniel , in 2002.

“In 2002 Celso Daniel, in 2018 Jair Bolsonaro and now Sergio Moro. Everything cannot be just a coincidence. Absolute power at any price has always been the goal of the left”, he wrote on social networks.

According to the prosecutor Lincoln Gakiya, who coordinates the main group of the Public Ministry against organized crime, Moro would be in the sights of the PCC for having prevented intimate visits in prisons.

The PCC’s plan was dismantled by the PF on Wednesday morning. The organization did not just target Moro, but a number of authorities, including Gakiya.

As shown to Sheetthe prosecutor is at the top of a list of those sentenced to death by the faction, the so-called “decreeds”, according to the intelligence services of the Government of São Paulo.

The PF action was named Sequaz and, says the PF, aims to dismantle the group that “intended to carry out attacks against public servants and authorities, including homicides and extortion through kidnapping, in at least five units of the federation”.

24 search and seizure warrants, 7 preventive arrest warrants and 4 temporary arrest warrants were served in Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, São Paulo and Paraná.

During the operation, the PF found hiding places for criminals at one of the target addresses – the city where this occurred was not revealed by the corporation.

The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, said this Wednesday that the PF also found evidence of the setting up of bunkers in Paraná to kidnap or store weapons to prepare the murder of Moro.

“An investigation that is so serious that it was carried out in defense of the life and integrity of a senator who opposed our government. You cannot take a statement made yesterday, literally yesterday, and link it to an investigation that has been going on for months,” he said. the minister.

As Minister of Justice of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Moro acted in the transfer of several leaders of the PCC, among them Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, Marcola, to the federal penitentiary system.

The main head of the PCC was transferred from the state penitentiary system in São Paulo to the federal penitentiary in Brasília in February 2019. Months later, he was transferred to a federal unit in Rondônia and then returned to the federal capital.

In addition to him, another 21 members of the faction’s leadership were transported at that time in an Armed Forces plane from the airport in neighboring Presidente Prudente (SP) for the transfer.

The attacks against Moro and other authorities, according to the investigation, would take place simultaneously, and the main targets were in São Paulo and Paraná. In São Paulo, the target was prosecutor Lincoln Gakiya, who has been involved in investigations into the PCC’s activities for years.

In August 2022, the PF even carried out arrest warrants and searches and seizures in an investigation into a plan to rescue PCC chiefs from maximum security federal prisons.

At the time, the police already pointed out the suspicion of a plan to kidnap authorities and carry out other actions to obtain the release of faction leaders.