The first class of the (Supreme Federal Court) formed a majority to maintain the decision of the minister who (PL) and imposed measures against him, such as the use of an electronic anklet and the ban on communication with his son in the United States, licensed deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP).
Bolsonaro was the target of search performed by Friday morning and Moraes asked the immediate scheduling of the agenda to the board.
In addition to Moraes, rapporteur of the case, the class is formed by the ministers, president, and. The trial will continue until 11:59 pm next Monday (21). The session was opened at 12h.
The rapporteur voted to maintain the measure and Dino accompanied him shortly after half an hour later. An hour later, Zanin also voted in the same direction and Cármen Lúcia followed the same understanding.
“The events launched this decision in referendum have direct connection with foreign government deliberations, explicitly focused on STF’s exclusive skills,” said Dino.
The minister’s reference is to the offensive of US President Donald Trump against Brazil, with the announcement of a 50% surcharge on Brazilian products and accusations against the country’s justice system regarding Bolsonaro trial in the case of the 2022 coup plot.
“This coercion assumes an unprecedented form: the ‘kidnapping’ of a nation’s economy, threatening companies and jobs, aiming to demand that the Federal Supreme Court pay the” rescue “, filing a court case at the request of the Attorney General’s Office, under the exclusive regency of Brazilian laws,” Dino wrote in the vote.
Minister Cármen Lúcia also understood that the measures defined by the rapporteur for the benefit of public and legal security and society, in order to keep the Constitution of Brazil and guarantee the rule of law.
“The need to maintain precautionary measures decreed in the decision that proposes to endorse is evidenced by the numerous posts attached to the process, which contains evidence of efforts developed by Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro and Jair Messias Bolsonaro to interfere with the regular procedures of criminal action No. 2,688, in which Jair Bolsonaro is defendant,” he said.
The STF is in recess until the end of the month, but a. Lawyers and prosecutors will be able to submit oral support until the trial began at 11:59 am.
The process is confidential and was opened by representation of the PF and distributed to Moraes because the minister already reports the federal deputy licensed (PL-SP) to investigate possible practice of coercion crimes, obstruction of investigation and violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of law by his performance in the United States against Brazilian authorities.
The (Attorney General’s Office) requested Moraes to the former president as an urgent measure for “. According to the agency, there is” indications of the concrete possibility of the defendant’s escape and the maintenance of actions to obstruct the course of criminal action “.
will not be able to leave home at night and on weekends, and cannot communicate with other investigated or with representatives of foreign embassies
Bolsonaro faces a lawsuit on charges of leading a coup plot and is also the focus of other investigations conducted by the agency. With the anklet, the former president will be monitoring by the authorities on the eve of what may take him to.
The PF seized a search performed against the former president, according to agents who accompany the actions. Searches were performed at his house and at the headquarters of the PL, his party.
A the precautionary measures imposed on the former president. He also said that he “always complied with all the determinations of the judiciary.”
In the decision, Moraes lists publications on social networks and interviews by Jair and Eduardo Bolsonaro, Trump’s demonstration quoting the former president, and says that the conduct “characterizes 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 in the sense of “inducing, instigating and assisting foreign government the practice of hostile acts to Brazil and the ostensible attempt submission of the operation of the Supreme Court to America, with the purpose of ‘filing/extinction’ of AP 2668”, the criminal action of the central core of the coup plot.
