Federal Police of Brazil searches at Bolsonaro’s house and puts it electronic bracelet

The Federal Police of Brazil made, this Friday, searches at the house of Jair Bolsonaro and at the headquarters of his party. The former Brazilian president said he was the target of a “supreme humiliation” after an electronic bracelet was placed to avoid an escape from Brazil.

Jair Bolsonaro says he is being the subject of a “supreme humiliation” after a Electronic bracelet to avoid an escape from Brazil.

This arose following the Federal Police of Brazil that this Friday searches and seizures made on Friday linked to the former president (2019-2022), prosecuted in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) by supposed tentative of coup d’etat.

The judicial authorities consider that, together with one of their children, Bolsonaro is act to hinder the process in which it is accused for attempted coup d’état and which is under analysis by the Brazilian justice.

Images released by Rede GloboNews showed Federal Police vehicles at Bolsonaro’s residence in the Brazilian capital. Another search and seizure order also occurred at the Liberal Party (PL) headquarters, led by him.

In addition to the use of an electronic bracelet, among the measures adopted by order of the STF against Jair Bolsonaro are prohibition of using social networks and communicating with son Eduardo Bolsonaro.

The former president should stay at home at night timefrom 19h00 to 07h00, and on weekends, and You will not be able to communicate with ambassadors and foreign diplomats nin approaching embassies.

“Supreme humiliation”

“I cannot approach embassy, I have a time to stay on the street and, in my view, the purpose of precautionary measures is a supreme humiliation. This is the goal, ”said Bolsonaro, in a reaction to journalists.

Investigators pointed out that Bolsonaro’s actions allegedly hinder the process in which he is accused, they can characterize crimes of coercion During the process, obstruction of justice and attack on national sovereignty.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, deputy and son of the former president, has been in the United States since March with funds sent by his father to lead a campaign that calls for embargoes to Brazil and punishments to judges and authorities linked to the process.

Bolsonaro justified that his son is in the United States to “fight for democracy and freedom” and said he never intended to leave Brazil, which justified the decision to apply an electronic bracelet.

“I never thought of leaving Brazil or going to the embassy”he declared.

Can Trump influence process?

Searches take place within the scope of an open investigation in the Federal Supreme Court last Friday, two days after Donald Trump’s announcement of a 50% rate on all products exported by Brazil and criticizing the accusation against Bolsonaro.

Eduardo Bolsonaro has been boasting of having influenced the decision of US President Donald Trump to apply a 50% rate to Brazil from August 1.

The leader of the Brazilian far right, in turn, devalued his son’s performance in the United States saying that the 50% rate on exports imposed against Brazil has nothing to do with your family.

“The whole world is under Trump fares,” said Bolsonaro, who explicitly expressed support for the US head of state.

The former Brazilian president stated that the United States is a country that “projects freedom and would do nothing against democracy in Brazil.”

Asked if his criminal prosecution was correct in Brazilian courts to be placed as a condition of a negotiation to avoid the tariffs imposed by the US, Bolsonaro told reporters to ask Trump this question.