Court orders him to wear ankle tag and imposes curfew

A court ordered Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro to wear an ankle label and put it on the curfew through fears he could escape while he was tried.

Bolsonaro – 2019-22 in power – President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva is accused of planning a coup to prevent him from taking office in 2023.

US President Donald Trump is trying to break the case against his ally, which he calls “witch hunting”, threatening tariffs to Brazilian goods. On Friday, the United States canceled visas for the Brazilian judicial officials who participated in the case.

Bolsonaro said that court restrictions mean “supreme humiliation” and never intending to leave Brazil.

On Friday, the police raided his home and political headquarters with the order of the Supreme Court.

Judge Alexandre de Moraes also ordered Bolsonaro to be banned from social media and communicate with his son Eduardo Bolsonaro and foreign ambassadors, diplomats or synonyms.

The former president will be taken under 24 -hour supervision and at night he will have to comply with the curfew.

Judge Moraes said that Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo was deliberate and illegal to make sanctions on Brazilian public officials.

In a statement, Bolsonaro’s lawyers said in the court’s decision “surprise and anger” and added that the former president has always obeyed the orders of the court “.

According to the federal police, Bolsonaro tried to prevent the trial and took over the actions that created an attack on national sovereignty.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday late, “Moraes and courts in the court of visa cancellations and immediately entered into force to family members immediately,” he said.

Last week, US President threatened 50% tariff for Brazilian goods As of August 1, he directly referred to the Bolsonaro treatment of Brazil.

Lula is back, Match the tariffs imposed on Brazil by the USA. In a mission in X, the president said Brazil’s “a dominant country with independent institutions” and “no one is above the law”.

On Thursday, Trump said about Social Social, which he sent to Bolsonaro, means that the criminal case means political persecution and that the threat of tariff aims to pressure the Brazilian authorities to reduce charges.

The US President compared the prosecution with the legal lawsuits he had faced with two presidential conditions.

Bolsonaro is being tried with seven defendants who resulted in the storm of government buildings one week after the opening of Lula in January 2023.

Eight defendants are accused of five charges: trying to make a coup, participating in an armed criminal organization, violent abolition of democratic law, aggravated damage and disruption of the listed heritage.

If found guilty, 70 -year -old Bolsonaro may be behind the bars for decades.

The former President constantly rejected the charges against him, called them “grave and unquestioned,” and claimed that he was a victim of “political persecution”, which aims to prevent him from running back to the president in 2026.

Talking in court in June, Bolsonaro said a coup was “disgusting.” And he and his military commanders were “never speaking a coup.”

In 2022, he lost his presidential elections narrowly to his left -wing rival Lula.

Bolsonaro never accepted the procession. Most of the supporters camp for weeks outside the army barracks to convince the army to prevent Lula’s oath.

One week after the opening of Lula, on January 8, 2023, Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters Brazil Congress, Supreme Court and Presidential Palace There was a coup attempt when the Federal Inspectors said.

Bolsonaro was in the United States at the time and always rejected the rebels.

A federal investigation was initiated about the rebellions and the events that went to them. The inspectors later said that they found evidence of a “criminal organization” that acted in a coordinated way to bring President Bolsonaro to power.

The 884 -page reports, which were not closed in November 2024, claimed that “then President Jairas Bolsonaro’s criminal organization, which aims to establish a coup and eliminate the rule of democratic law, directly and effectively recognized the actions of the criminal organization.”

The Brazilian Chief Public Prosecutor Paulo Gonet went even further in his report published in February, and accused Bolsonaro of not only aware of his awareness, but also to manage the people he said he was trying to overthrow Lula.