preventively this Saturday after the Supreme Court confirmed that the former president tried to manipulate the electronic anklet that controlled his movements while he was serving house arrest in Brasilia. A video shared by the court shows the device with burn marks around its entire surface.
The arrest order was issued by Magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, responsible for the trial for attempted coup d’état, who justified the measure due to the “specific risk of flight” and the “threat to public order.” According to the judge, the signs of manipulation of the device coincided with a demonstration called in front of Bolsonaro’s residence by one of his sons.which would have facilitated an eventual escape attempt.
In the recording released this Saturday, an agent talks with the former president, who acknowledges that He began working on the anklet toward the end of the afternoon on Friday using a soldering iron. Although the expert determined that the structure of the device did not break, the authorities were forced to replace it with a new one. Bolsonaro’s defense has 24 hours to justify the behavior of the former president, whose attitude some allies have attributed to health problems.
Bolsonaro, sentenced to 27 years in prison for “leading a coup plot” aimed at “staying in power” after losing the 2022 elections against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was transferred this Saturday to the headquarters of the Superintendency of the Federal Police in Brasilia. There he will remain in custody while the Supreme Court finalizes the decision that could immediately activate the full execution of his sentence.
