Brazil supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro | Brazil
The judge of a Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the imprisonment of former President Jair Bolsonaro from the house for violating “preventive measures” because of concerns that the extreme right leader could be punished on a alleged coup attempt.
According to the decision of Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday, Bolsonaro was ordered to use a social media last month to wear an electronic ankle label.
Moraes wrote that as demonstrators went to the streets to support the former president in various cities of the country on Sunday, Bolsonaro wrote that the allies used their social media accounts to share messages containing “clear courage and encouragement to attack the Supreme Federal Court and to share the external intervention in Brazil’s judiciary”.
Moraes, “No doubt that the precautionary measure has been violated,” he wrote.
Justice ordered Bolsonaro to put a mansion in the south of Bolsonaro in the south of the capital Brasília at home arrest.
The federal police instructed him to collect all mobile phones on the property.
Visitors authorized to see the former President will not be allowed to use mobile phones, take photos or record videos.
In his decision, Moraes said that despite the prohibition of using social media, the extreme right leader participated in a pro -Bolsonar demonstration at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. During the rally, one of his politician sons, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro held a phone call to the microphone to hear the former president’s speech.
Senator, social media, Bolsonaro’nun appealing to the supporters by telephone had released a video – but later deleted images. Moraes argued that deletion was a “open öntem initiative to hide the violation of restrictions with the court order.
“The ugly disrespect for preventive measures was so clear – of course to repeat – the defendant’s own son Senator Flávio Nantes Bolsonaro, decided to delete the post from Instagram account to hide legal violations,” he wrote.
The arrest warrant is part of a Supreme Court, which was accused of making a plan to overthrow the results of the last election that Bolsonaro was defeated by the current President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva defeated the former army captain.
The hearing is expected to end later this year, and Bolsonaro is imprisoned for more than 40 years of imprisonment.
“Bolsonaro is being arrested slowly,” political commentator Fernando Gabeira said at Globonews. “The Supreme Court throws it in jail to avoid a great shock, not conscious or not.”
In Brasilía, political temperature has been increasing in recent days, and thousands of Bolsonaro supporters are gathering outside the Central Bank to provide their support on Sunday.
Many of these protesters recently called Brazil to take more action to help to save the challenging leaders of US President Donald Trump, who hit Brazil with ordeal tariffs allegedly with the alleged “witch hunt”.
Orum I want to hug Trump and tell him: Thank you for being worried about us, ”he said 64 -year -old álvaro Junior, a Bolsonaro supporter with a sign that says“ Thank you, Trump ”.
Metal barricades have been built in the expectation of possible right -right protests or violence around the Court of Cassation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the congress.
Trump, the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, “a repressive censorship campaign, violating human rights, including former President Jair Bolsonaro’ya accused of being responsible for political prosecution, including the sanctions to slap the political flames last week.
43 -year -old Lindovaldo Ribeiro Paulo greeted the sanctions on Moraes: “Now we admire the American people and even feel love.”
In a decision of Monday, Moraes said that Bolsonaro was “repeating his illegal behavior even more violently and challenging ve and continued to encourage a foreign president to encourage and provoke a normal course of normal proceedings to take measures to intervene illegally.
