Former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) will remain in preventive detention, according to a decision taken after a custody hearing in Brasília this Sunday, 23.
after Bolsonaro violated the electronic ankle bracelet and because of the vigil called by one of his sons, senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), in front of his father’s condominium, in the Federal District. The act, according to Flávio, was for supporters to say prayers for Bolsonaro’s health and for democracy.
However, for Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, the vigil was intended to make monitoring house arrest more difficult, which would provide a chance to escape. The former president spent the night in a special cell at the PF Superintendence.
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On Monday, the 24th, Bolsonaro will know where he will serve his sentence of 27 years and three months for the coup attempt. This is when the deadline for his defense to present the last appeal to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) expires and when the First Panel of the Court will decide whether or not to maintain the preventive detention ordered by Moraes on Saturday.
The tendency is that, first, the prison will be maintained. Then, the final appeal is denied. If this last measure is confirmed, the coup plot process will be declared final and Bolsonaro will have to begin serving his sentence. As a rule, initially in a closed regime.
The former president’s defense alleges health problems and advanced age (70 years old) to support the request that Bolsonaro serve his sentence at home, where he was when he used a soldering iron against the electronic ankle bracelet.
