MADRID 21 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, celebrated this Thursday that the plan to end his life revealed this week – which resulted in four soldiers and a police officer being detained – has not been successful, in what is his first statement about what happened.
“I am a guy that I have to thank much more now because I am alive. The attempt to poison me and (Vice President Gerardo) Alckmin was not successful, we are here,” he said at an event at the Planalto Palace, the headquarters of the Government in Brasilia.
Lula da Silva has assured that he is not seeking to “persecute anyone”, in the midst of the investigations into what happened and that point towards former President Jair Bolsonaro himself and some of his allies, as sources from the Federal Police and the Attorney General’s Office have revealed. to the Brazilian media.
“I don’t want to poison anyone, the only thing I want is that when my term ends, we demoralize, with numbers, those who want to govern,” Lula said, explaining that it is about “measuring with numbers who built the most schools, took care of the poor, built bridges and roads and raised the minimum wage further.
“That is what I want to measure because that is what counts when governing,” Lula said, according to the G1 news portal.
On Tuesday of this week, when the G20 summit was taking place in Rio de Janeiro, the Federal Police arrested four soldiers and one of their agents accused of planning the deaths of Lula, Vice President Alckmin and Supreme Court Judge Alexander de Moraes after the 2022 elections.
The investigation maintains that the scheduled date to commit these crimes was December 15 and that they considered the possibility of poisoning Lula. A month before, the house of the former Minister of Defense with Jair Bolsonaro, Walter Braga Netto, also served to hatch the plot.
The arrests were carried out thanks, in part, to the content of the messages that some soldiers exchanged with Bolsonaro’s former right-hand man, Mauro Cid, who spent several months in prison for his involvement in an alleged plot to falsify vaccination data against COVID-19.
Cid, on whose phone evidence of an alleged plan to keep Bolsonaro in power was found when he was being investigated for falsifying vaccination records, is expected to testify before the Supreme Court this Thursday.