Former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro he was arrested at dawn by federal police. The news was spread by local media whose decisions were taken by Supreme Court judges Alexandre de Moraes following a request from police for violation of precautionary measures and risk of escape. Newspaper O Globe he underlined that this was a precautionary hold.
Bolsonaro was taken at around 6.35am to the Federal Police Inspectorate, where he will stay in a representative room reserved for authorities and high-level public figures. According to reports, that is electronic ankle bracelet the one he had been wearing since last July was vandalized in the early hours of the morning and, according to de Moraes, it would have been the start of an escape attempt, perhaps towards the United States embassy, taking advantage of the night. a night vigil organized with his support by his son Flavio in front of the condominium where he lives. “It should be emphasized that the defendant’s condominium is located approximately 13 kilometers from the southern sector of the Brasilia/DF embassy, where the United States embassy is located, a distance that can be covered in approximately 13 kilometers. 15 minutes by car“, underlined the judge.
Leader of Brazil from 2019 to 2023, Bolsonaro is in house arrest – always due to violation of precautions – after sentenced to 27 years and three months for an attempted coup. In fact, the 70-year-old man was found guilty by a judge of organizing a coup to overthrow President Ignacio Lula da Silva, who defeated him in the 2022 elections. According to prosecutors, the plan involvedmurder current president and Judge de Moraes, but failed due to lack of support from the leaders of the armed forces. The decision is not final and the conclusion of the appeal stage is still awaited. According to local media reports, the execution of the sentence is expected to begin in the next few weeks, after the Supreme Court rejected the first appeal.
Yesterday, Bolsonaro’s lawyers had requested that their client be allowed to serve his entire sentence under house arrest, considering the former president “presents a serious clinical condition” and his transfer to prison could pose a “real risk to his life.” His son Carlos, a city councilman in Rio de Janeiro, wrote on social media that his father “constantly vomits when he wakes up. I’ve never seen it like this. He gets hiccups when he sleeps and I’m afraid he has reflux, which could be fatal if he sucks up what he vomits.” He also recently had eight skin lesions removed, two of which were found to be in the form of hiccups. tumor in the initial phase.
And again on Friday November 21, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered a precautionary detention Alexandre RamagemBolsonaro ally and sentenced to 16 years in prison at the same trial as the former president for crimes of organized crime, coup and abolition
violence against the democratic rule of law. According to investigators, the man, the former head of Brazil’s Intelligence Service, fled to United States of America via Venezuela and French Guiana.
