Moraes Votes to Accept PGR Charges in 2022 Brasília Airport Bomb Plot Case

Overview

• The Supreme Court’s First Panel is holding a virtual vote through December 19, with Cristiano Zanin, Cármen Lúcia and Flávio Dino yet to cast their votes.
• Prosecutors charged Alan Diego dos Santos Rodrigues, Wellington Macedo de Souza and George Washington de Oliveira Sousa with armed criminal association, attempted abolition of the democratic state, coup d’état and an attack on air transport security.
• According to the PGR, the men placed an explosive on the axle of a fuel tanker near Brasília’s main airport on December 24, 2022, after planning around a pro‑coup encampment by the Army headquarters.
• George Washington and Alan Diego were convicted in 2023 by a Brasília criminal court for exposing life and property to danger in the attempted bombing.
• Alan Diego has been in preventive detention since June by order of Alexandre de Moraes, and at least three votes are needed to receive the complaint and make the accused formal defendants.