Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), authorized on Friday (12) the replacement of the pre-trial detention of federal deputy Chiquinho Brazil (without party-RJ) for house arrest.
The decision is based on medical reports that point to the parliamentarian, one of those accused of being from Councilwoman Marielle Franco (PSOL-RJ) and driver Anderson Gomes, in March 2018.
Arrested currently at the Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary (MS), Brazão must comply with a series of restrictive measures.
These include the use of an electronic anklet, a ban on accessing social networks – even through third parties – to maintain contact with other investigators, to give press interviews and to receive visits except lawyers, children, grandchildren and siblings.
Moraes’s decision contradicts the opinion of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), which had been positioned against the change in the arrest regime. For the agency, the conversion of preventive to home would only be possible if the necessary medical treatment could not be performed in the penitentiary system – which, according to PGR, did not apply to the case.
Brazão’s defense argues that the deputy faces several health problems, including renal failure, severe cardiovascular condition and compromise of mental health. According to lawyers, he has lost more than 21 kg in six months, underwent angioplasty with stents and has a high risk of sudden death.
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The request was filed on April 2 in the Supreme Court and is supported, among other elements, in a technical report of the National Secretariat of Criminal Policies (Senappen), which indicated high cardiovascular risk and physical and psychic vulnerability of the defendant.
CASE MARIELLE
Chiquinho Brazão was arrested on March 24, along with Brother Domingos Brazão-Counselor of the Rio de Janeiro State Court of Auditors-and former Chief of the State Civil Police, Rivaldo Barbosa. The three were named as the mandants of the murder by Ronnie Lessa, a confessed author of the shots that killed Marielle and Anderson, in award -winning report approved by the STF.
The crime, which dragged on unresolved for almost six years, was unlocked with the Federal Police operation held last month. Since then, the accused have been in custody in federal maximum security prisons.
