Supreme Court denies appeal and upholds indictment man who called Moraes a 'child sacrificer'

The First Panel of the Supreme Federal Court denied an appeal and upheld the decision that indicted Glaudiston da Silva Cabral , after he repeatedly insulted ministers of the Court and called Alexandre de Moraes a "child sacrificer" and a "Satanist."

The Attorney General's Office indictment charges the man with criminal conspiracy and incitement to crime, arguing that his actions are part of the context of the coup-mongering demonstrations that culminated on January 8, 2023.

The Federal Public Defender's Office appealed, alleging that the result should be annulled because the defense was supposedly not notified in advance about the hearing.

Moraes, the rapporteur for the case, was the first to vote against the motion for clarification. “The defense's claim does not merit consideration, given that the respective hearing schedule was published in the Electronic Official Gazette, and also because the arguments raised in the defense brief were duly analyzed in the challenged ruling.”

Ministers Cristiano Zanin, Flávio Dino, and Cármen Lúcia sided with the rapporteur in the judgment, which took place in the virtual plenary. They could express their opinions until next Monday, the 10th, the date scheduled for the end of the voting.

According to the Attorney General's Office, the defendant "associated himself with hundreds of other people, with the objective of committing acts that went against the legitimacy of the electoral system and against the Democratic Rule of Law." These acts allegedly occurred between July 2020 and May 2024.

The first post by the Bolsonaro supporter against Moraes accused the minister of a series of practices, such as "black magic rituals with child sacrifice." In 2023, a "complaint" filed by Glaudiston called Moraes and the then president of the Supreme Federal Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, "genocidal" and "pedophiles."

In his vote to accept the charges, Moraes stressed that criticism is natural in a democratic system, but stated that the accused incited the Armed Forces to act against the constituted powers "and, with the same conduct, incited the practice of a coup d'état."

"A democratic state governed by the rule of law cannot exist without independent and harmonious branches of government." "Consequently," the minister emphasized, "the conduct on the part of the accused is extremely serious and, at least in this preliminary analysis, corresponds to the primary precepts established in the aforementioned article of our Penal Code."