Without proof, Brazilian Minister of Justice claims there was a plan to assassinate Lula at the inauguration
Citing messages discovered by the Federal Police, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, said there was a “plan” to assassinate President Lula da Silva on Jan. 1.
The author would be George Washington de Oliveira Sousa, responsible for setting a bomb at Juscelino Kubitschek Airport in Brasilia, who was disarmed on Dec. 24.
According to Dino, Sousa was obtaining instructions on how to make a long-distance rifle shot.
“He was getting information,” Dino said in an interview with the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo on Saturday, Feb. 25.
“There is a dialogue where he seeks information about the best rifle and the best aim for so many meters away.”
“There were preparatory acts for the execution of a shot, which would be fired on the day of Lula’s inauguration.”
Dino also said that the messages do not mention Lula but that the content hints that it is a plan to assassinate Lula.
Sousa was arrested in flagrante on Dec. 24 because of the bomb.
According to the Federal Police, in a statement, the man confessed that he wanted to provoke a state of siege, preventing Lula’s inauguration as president.
However, Sousa did not mention an alleged plan to assassinate the then President-elect.
With information from Revista Oeste
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