The First Chamber of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) resumed the trial on Tuesday, December 16, against the six defendants who comprise Group Two of the coup conspiracy that occurred after the 2022 elections. The session began with a vote by the presiding judge, Alexandre de Moraes.
According to the indictment from the Attorney General’s Office, the defendants, mostly military personnel with Special Forces training, face charges for their alleged participation in drafting coup plans, including one called “Green and Yellow Dagger.”
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This plan contemplated serious acts, including the assassination and neutralization of high-ranking state officials, such as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and Judge De Moraes himself.
➡️ STF retoma nesta terça-feira (16/12) o julgamento do Núcleo 2 da tentativa de golpe de Estado. A sessão terá início às 9h com o voto do relator, ministro Alexandre de Moraes: https://t.co/TY6GQykiHx#PraTodosVerem: contém descrição da imagem pic.twitter.com/qvVUaF86jB
— STF (@STF_oficial) December 15, 2025
In addition to the assassination plots, the defendants are accused of coordinating the use of the Federal Highway Police (PRF) to sabotage the 2022 presidential runoff election.
The lightning operation, concentrated in the Northeast region and carried out in defiance of the Superior Electoral Court, aimed to block highways and prevent access to polling stations in order to reduce the votes of then-candidate Lula, who had won the majority in the first round.
The Federal Police stated at the time that the investigations suggest that “the criminal organization used a high level of technical and military expertise to plan, coordinate, and execute illicit actions in November and December 2022.”
The Charges and the Legal Progress
Those accused in this coup plot, which includes former advisors to former President Jair Bolsonaro, delegates, and high-ranking police officials, face charges including attempted violent overthrow of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, participation in an armed criminal organization, aggravated damage, and destruction of protected property.
To date, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) has convicted 24 people involved in the conspiracy in its various phases. Of that total, eight belong to the first phase (comprised of Bolsonaro and seven former members of his government), seven are from phase four, and nine are from phase three.
Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced in September to 27 years in prison for leading the coup plot, whose aim was to prevent Lula da Silva from taking office. The STF justices determined that the far-right former president sought a rupture of the democratic order with the support of members of his government, intelligence agencies, and members of the Armed Forces.
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