de Mello, 75, will be the second to occupy the chair of President of the Republic detained after conviction in the penal sphere. , after being sentenced in the second instance, in 2018. The sentence of the petista was later annulled by the (Supreme Court).
(MDB) was arrested preventively on two occasions in 2019, in a total of ten days, also in an deployment of Operation Lava Jato. He got habeas corpus and was not sentenced to the proceedings.
In addition to these cases, they only had the jail as a destination or suspicious or accused of political crimes in the midst of crises and blows.
He was arrested on another occasion in 1980, but as a union leader, still for many years of having in his biography the presidential range, under a, when he did not exist in the state of law.
Collor was convicted by the Supreme Court in May 2023 for the crimes of passive and money laundering. The penalty was set at the time in eight years and ten months in prison. The arrest was decreed on Thursday (24) after negative in the second appeal of the defense.
The complaint had been filed by the (Attorney General’s Office) in August 2015, under. He was accused of receiving bribes from a corruption scheme at BR Distribuidora, a subsidiary company.
The defense argued to the Supreme Court that accusations against the former president are based only on award-winning allegations. Regarding the request for detention, Collor’s defenders said, by note, to have received “the decision” that denied the appeal that understands appropriately.
Other presidents of Brazil have already been arrested, but for political, non -criminal reasons. In July 1922, Marshal Hermes da Fonseca was arrested, who had ruled the country from 1910 to 1914.
Then president of the Military Club, Hermes was arrested by President Epitácio Pessoa himself, after contesting the government’s repression against groups dissatisfied with the election of Artur Bernardes to the Catete Palace.
After suffering a heart attack, the former president was released, being arrested again days later, with the revolt at the Copacabana Fort. With tenentism on his foot, Epitacio decreed the state of siege.
Hermes would be released after a Supreme Habeas Corpus in his favor in January 1923. Sick, he would die in September of that year.
The defense argued that the former president suffered illegal embarrassment, as he was arrested without formed guilt and the process irregularly in the military sphere when the case was a political crime, subject to civil jurisdiction.
But if there was also judicial proceedings, the Hermes case was essentially political, besides gathering the eccentricities of a Brazil from considerably weaker institutions than today.
It was the times of the oligarchic republic of coffee with milk, which vetoed the secret vote, the numerous illiterate and even the “beggars”, as the constitution of the time was spelled.
The other arrests of Brazilian representatives occurred under even more discretion.
With political rights revoked by the beginning in 1964, he was imprisoned in a barracks after the AI-5 edition in 1968, which hardened the regime. Then he spent a month in house arrest.
Jânio Quadros was another detained that year, even before AI-5, for criticizing the military regime. By order of the government, it was temporarily “confined” to Corumbá, which today integrates Mato Grosso do Sul. He was a native of Campo Grande.
The Vargas era collects two former presidents arrested. The first victim was Washington Luís, who, deposed by the uprising led by in 1930, was arrested and left for exile.
Artur Bernardes lost freedoms twice. First, in 1932, in supporting the Constitutionalist Revolution. Then, in 1939, after Getúlio decree the Estado Novo.
Café Filho (1954-1955) became kept incommunicable in his apartment, guarded by the army, before having his impediment voted by Congress during the crisis preceding JK’s inauguration.
