The decision of the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) that () has as its main subsidies publications on the social networks of the former president, his son and also the president of the United States ,.
The publications are cited in the requests of the (Attorney General’s Office) that underlined the operation of Friday (18), which imposed precautionary measures on the former president.
In them, Eduardo states that he has dealt with the US government about sanctions on Brazil and Moraes due to Bolsonaro’s trial in the coup plot action after the 2022 election defeat.
In the decision, Moraes cites an excerpt from the PGR demonstration that calls for the installation of the anklet for “indicatives of the concrete possibility of the defendant’s escape”, but does not advance in other indications other than public statements in social networks and interviews.
One of the PGR excerpts cited by Moraes says that since the beginning of the year, Eduardo Bolsonaro repeatedly claims that he is dedicating himself to achieving from the United States government the imposition of sanctions against members of the Federal Supreme Court, the Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Police, so it considers it to be a political persecution to himself and his father. “
According to PGR, publications on social networks have “a manifest intimidating tone for those who act as public, investigation and accusation agents, as well as for the judges in criminal action, realizing the purpose of improper providence against what Mr. Eduardo Bolsonaro seems to be a probable conviction.”
The representation of the Federal Police, also cited by Moraes, says that Eduardo “began to repost in his profile on social networks content in English, notably in order to reach portion of the public abroad.”
In addition, he “made speeches in which he announced the imminent possibility of actions contrary to the Brazilian authorities and/or the state, for reasons of alleged political persecution, making it clear that he was acting directly abroad in favor of this result.”
In the decision that based Friday’s operation, Moraes said that Jair Bolsonaro’s statements and the performance of Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro in the US are attacking national sovereignty, even citing the tariff announced by US President Donald Trump as an “extortion” against Brazilian justice.
For the minister, interviews and publications “characterize clear and expressed executory acts and blatant confessions of the practice of criminal acts.”
He cites suspicions of coercion crimes in the course of the process, obstruction of criminal offense investigation involving criminal organization and sovereignty attack.
The two, says Moraes, acted that they “induce, instigate and assist foreign government the practice of hostile acts to Brazil and the ostensive attempt submission of the operation of the Supreme Court to those of America, with the purpose of ‘filing/extinction’ of AP 2668 [ação da trama golpista]”.
By determination of the minister, the former president will have to wear an electronic anklet, will not be able to leave home at night and on weekends, and cannot communicate with other investigated or with representatives of foreign embassies.
“The suspicion is an exaggeration. I am a former president of the Republic, I am 70 years old. Supreme humiliation. It is the fourth search and seizure over me,” he said before the headquarters of the Federal Police in Brasilia. “The inquiry of the coup is a political inquiry. Nothing concrete exists there.”
The decision against Bolsonaro occurs at a time when Bolsonarism narrows ties with the US government of Trump. Deputy Eduardo is in the US, and this Friday’s actions are derived from the former president’s son.
The procedure that led to the application of the measures against Bolsonaro was filed with the Supreme Court and distributed to the Moraes Office on July 11, two days after Trump announced the surcharge of citing the lawsuit against the former president in the STF.
