The Federal Police of Brazil has preventively detained former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro this Saturday, and who was already under house arrest, as confirmed by his lawyer to the agency. Reuters.
The representatives of the former Brazilian president demanded this Friday from the Supreme Court that he could continue with the sentence “in humanitarian house arrest”, since they considered that his transfer to a prison “would have serious consequences and represents a risk to your life“.
Bolsonaro’s defense assured this Friday that his health problems could endanger the former president of Brazil and, before the arrest took place, his spokesman, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, called on his followers to join “a prayer vigil for health.”
This same Saturday, the Supreme Court of Brazil has assured that he has been detained preventively because had tried to break the electronic anklet that monitored his movements to escape during the demonstration in front of his house.
The former Brazilian president was serving at his home the preventive detention that the judge ordered him since last August. With an electronic anklet and police surveillance, he did not have permission to leave due to the risk of escape.
According to the group Globothe Brazilian Supreme Court has decreed the preventive detention of the former president of Brazil to try to “ensure public order“.
The Federal Police of Brazil has also reported in a brief note that “it was this saturdayin Brasilia, a preventive detention order in accordance with a decision of the Supreme Court”, although he did not specify against whom.
According to local media, this Saturday’s preventive detention is not about the beginning of the execution of the sentence, which was expected in the coming weeks, after the rejection by the Supreme Court of the first appeals against the sentence.
Within the framework of the coup process, the Supreme Court also ordered on Friday the preventive detention of deputy Alexandre Ramagem, an ally of Bolsonaro and who was also convicted in the same trial of the former president, after supposedly having fled to the United States.
