Video leak favors government wing opposed to military in GSI

The leak this Wednesday (19) of a video from security cameras, which shows General Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias walking around the Planalto Palace amid protesters, gives arguments for oppositionists to claim that there was negligence by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Silva in acts of vandalism on January 8. But he also favors government wings who don’t like the Institutional Security Office (GSI) being headed by a military man. Gonçalves Dias resigned this afternoon and the president has already accepted.

Until the night of this Wednesday, there was no information about the origin of the leak of the video. Sources linked to Gonçalves Dias told the report that they suspected that the release of the video on the same day that the general would participate in a hearing in the Chamber may have been the result of “friendly fire” within the government.

Governing wings have been trying to convince President Lula to place a civilian administrator at the head of the Institutional Security Cabinet since the president began to structure his team. The speech would have its origin in members of the PT favorable to the complete “demilitarization” of the government.

The general spoke in an interview with GloboNews who went to the Palace after the invasion, which started around 3 pm. The images of him in the video date from 16:45. He stated that he tried to remove demonstrators from the third floor of the building, so that they could be detained on the lower floors.

He also said that the video images were edited so that he appeared next to a military man who offered water to the demonstrators.

The Institutional Security Office is responsible for the president’s security and also for sensitive areas such as the country’s nuclear and cyber security.

After the release of the video, Gonçalves Dias made his position available to Lula. He was replaced by civilian Ricardo Capelli, executive secretary of the Ministry of Justice, who accumulates the leadership of the GSI. There is the possibility that the definitive head of the portfolio is also a civilian.

PT president Gleisi Hoffmann said that the GSI team on January 8 was Bolsonarist, but did not directly accuse Gonçalves Dias, who has worked in security for Lula and also for former president Dilma Rousseff.