Staff who had been on the Planalto Palace on the time of the invasion, heard in a probe by the Institutional Safety Workplace, declare that the preliminary command was to ‘evacuate’ the constructing and information them to depart the place
The inquiry opened by the Institutional Safety Workplace (GSI) to analyze the conduct of civil servants who had been on the Planalto Palace on January 8, when the constructing was invaded and vandalized by radical Bolsonaristas, factors out that the order to arrest the extremists solely got here after many had been launched.
The fabric gathered to this point within the administrative investigation was shared with the Federal Supreme Court docket (STF).
The servants’ studies go in the identical course: the preliminary command was to evacuate the constructing. The reserve common’s steering Marco Gonçalves DiasG. Dias, former head of the GSI, solely got here to arrest the coup plotters after the vandals resisted leaving the Planalto Palace.
Colonel André Luiz Garcia Furtado, then common coordinator for Safety of Installations on the GSI, said that the change in command even generated a ‘disagreement’ between officers who commanded the work of the Military and the Army Police of the Federal District within the constructing.
“By way of Colonel Wanderli, this PMDF troop was instructed to hold out the arrests, and the stated officer accompanied the entry of this pressure by means of the PP ramp. With the arrival of this PMDF troop, already finishing up arrests, the BGP troop, commanded by Colonel Fernandes, who was solely directing demonstrators to vacate the 2nd flooring, was unaware of the brand new order by the chief minister of the GSI, which gave rise to a disagreement between the commanders of the fractions (EB and PMDF), a undeniable fact that was duly clarified by the Colonel Wanderli (DSeg), in order that, from then on, the 2 troops labored collectively to hold out the arrests of the demonstrators”, he narrated.
Earlier than that, in keeping with Furtado, the higher flooring had been vacated and many of the scammers had been concentrated within the exterior space. Basic Carlos José Russo Assumpção Penteado, on the time quantity two within the GSI, allegedly ordered the vandals to depart the world.
“Through the evacuation of the higher flooring, the remaining protesters, insensitive to the evacuation directions, remained within the Salão Nobre (2nd Ground). Military,” he stated.
Colonel Wanderli Baptista da Silva Júnior, former deputy director of the GSI’s Presidential Safety Division, was additionally heard within the investigation. He reported that, at first, the order was to ‘sweep’ the constructing.
“Again contained in the Planalto Palace (I do not keep in mind the precise time), however after the actions above (withdrawal of protesters), I obtained a name from Basic Gonçalves Dias ordering the arrest of the demonstrators contained in the Planalto Palace. In sequence. I known as Basic Carlos Feitosa, my fast boss, and confirmed with him the order obtained”, he declared.
He additionally stated that there was a dialogue between the officers who had been coordinating the work of the Military and the PM on the Planalto Palace, due to the change in orientation.
“The PMDF troop CMT got here again to me, saying ‘Command, I will arrest the Military Colonel’. I instantly walked previous the PMDF riot police and went to speak to Colonel Fernandes, who was finishing up the mission to withdraw protesters from the Palace and I used to be not conscious. Till that second, the arrest order decided by the Minister of the GSI. After informing him that I had known as the PMDF to adjust to the arrest order, the scenario of mismatch of knowledge, between the 2 officers, it was resolved instantly. Even the PMDF main later got here to apologize to me and in addition made himself obtainable to recant the colonel concerning the misunderstanding,” he stated.
Main José Eduardo Natale de Paula Pereira, former coordinator of GSI’s Presidential Safety Operations, who seems within the footage providing water to the vandals, stated he tried to ‘negotiate’ with the coup plotters, however was unable to include them. Based on him, there have been round 40 GSI response troops on the time of the invasion.
Natale additionally narrated that the riot police managed to ‘clear’ the third flooring and include the demonstrators who had been on the second flooring.
“Army police started clearing the Planalto Palace when different riot police from the PMDF arrived and the commander of this troop arrested the invading demonstrators,” he stated. “A number of invaders had already vacated the Presidential Palace.”
As within the testimonies given to the Federal Police (PF), the studies of GSI officers within the investigation converge in stating that the Brazilian Intelligence Company (Abin) didn’t subject warnings concerning the danger of violence within the protests on January 8. The safety planning for the Planalto Palace would have been ready primarily based on info from the PM of the DF.
