The minister Alexandre de Moraesfrom the STF (Supreme Federal Court), canceled visits that were already authorized to former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The decision took place alongside the provisional arrest of the former agent this Saturday (22).
Bolsonaro had visits authorized by Moraes until December 11th — including that of the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), on the 10th.
The former president will receive 16 more visits in the coming days. The list goes from the leader of the PL in the Chamber of Deputies, Sóstenes Cavalcante (RJ), to the former candidate for president of the Republic Padre Kelmon.
Now, only visits from lawyers and medical staff of the former president are authorized. New requests must be submitted to the STF.
Since Bolsonaro’s house arrest was ordered in August this year, the STF has periodically authorized visits to the former president. Among them were parliamentarians, religious figures, supporters and influencers.
Requests from people under investigation and other defendants have already been denied, as was the case with the president of the PL (Liberal Party), (Federal Police) for attempted coup d’état.
Preventive detention
(Federal Police) this Saturday due to risk of flight. The sentence of 27 years and three months in prison for attempted coup d’état has not yet been executed against the former head of Planalto.
According to the STF decision that authorized the arrest, the former president to “guarantee success in his escape”.
A “vigil” called by senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) in front of Bolsonaro’s house was one of the reasons that justified the decree of the former president’s preventive detention.
According to Moraes, Bolsonaro’s conviction and the proximity of the beginning of his sentence “indicate a high possibility of an escape attempt, which, in accordance with the peaceful jurisprudence of this Supreme Court, authorizes the decree of preventive detention”.
Uncharacterized vehicles, located in a condominium in Jardim Botânico. Right away, Bolsonaro was taken to superintendence of the PFwhere he disembarked at around 6:35 am.
The former president must pass by at noon on Sunday (23). Moraes asked for a schedule for the First Panel to endorse preventive detention. The session should take place on Monday (24), from 8am to 8pm.
