Sérgio Moro: 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.
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).
Sérgio Moro: So let this trial, at the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), be used to make the necessary correction of the sentencing dosimetry for the January 8 protesters, reducing their sentences, perhaps even unifying the sentencing dosimetry of the attempted coup d'état with the attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law, because it is a single crime.
Sérgio Moro: This has already been demonstrated in the votes of Minister Barroso, which were defeated in the Plenary, in Minister André Mendonça's vote, which was defeated in the Plenary, and I also imagine that it is embodied in Minister Fux's vote, which is still in progress.