Sérgio Moro: Let's hope that this vote is the beginning of putting things back in their place.
Sérgio Moro: If the STF proceeds to the merits and evaluates that merit, I saw in Minister Flávio Dino's vote yesterday — I read commentary, because I could not watch it in full — his reference to the possibility of recognizing minor participation for some of the accused, among them some military officers who appear on the defendant's side.
And I would say the following: if they are to be convicted and, at the same time, minor participation is recognized, then let that understanding be extended, whether in the panel (Turma) or eventually in the Plenary, in a review, to those January 8 protesters.
Sérgio Moro: Because, if we think about it, if this prosecution thesis that there was an attempted coup on January 8 prevails — with which I disagree — but if that thesis prevails and there is to be conviction of the generals, recognizing minor participation and therefore reducing the sentence, as our Penal Code allows, then that benefit should also be extended to those protesters.
Sérgio Moro: If the Generals had minor participation, those January 8 protesters had much less importance; in the attempted coup version, regarding which I have already said I disagree, they would at most have been a mass of maneuver, a pawn of minor importance, much inferior to that of any other participant in that criminal scheme narrated by the Office of the Attorney General (Procuradoria-Geral da República).