The former president (PL) told an agent that he used a “hot iron”, a , to try to open his electronic ankle bracelet. The statement is recorded on video and in a report from the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat of the Federal District.
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This Saturday afternoon (22), Moraes ordered Bolsonaro’s defense to clarify why he tried to damage the electronic ankle monitor.
“The equipment had clear and important signs of damage. There were burn marks around its entire circumference, where the case was fitted/closed. At the time of the analysis, the monitored person was questioned about the instrument used”, says the Seape document, signed by Rita Gaio, deputy director of the Integrated Electronic Monitoring Center.
According to the document, the initial information was that Bolsonaro had crashed the device into the stairs.
But, after the secretariat’s employee entered the scene, “the ankle bracelet showed no signs of stair shock”.
In a video, the DF prison administration employee asks Bolsonaro what time he started trying to violate the ankle bracelet. The former president responded that this would have happened late in the afternoon.
When asked about what had happened, Bolsonaro stated: I put a hot iron in, I put a hot iron in there… curiosity.” When asked: “What kind of iron was it? Iron?” he replied: “Soldering iron, solder.”
A soldering iron is a pointed tool that reaches a high temperature and allows you to melt metals. It is available for sale on the internet.
The Seape report says that the anklet violation alert occurred at 0:07 am this Saturday, and that the agency’s team immediately went to the scene.
“The criminal police made immediate contact with the defendant asking him to present himself to check the equipment. At the same time, the deputy director of Cime traveled to the location to analyze the situation in person”, says the text.
Based on this report, Moraes said that there was a confession from Bolsonaro himself about the violation of the
equipment, and ordered the defense to respond within 24 hours on the issue.
The PF preventively arrested Bolsonaro this Saturday morning in the coup plot.
Bolsonaro’s dialogue with an agent during an inspection of the electronic ankle bracelet
- Agent: Equipment 85916-5. Did you use something to burn this here?
- Bolsonaro: I put a hot iron in, I put a hot iron in there…
- Agent: Hot iron?
- Bolsonaro: Curiosity
- Agent: What iron was it? Iron?
- Bolsonaro: No. Soldering iron solders
- Agent: Soldering iron? The one with a point?
- Bolsonaro: Sim
- Agent: It is true. Did you try to pull the bracelet too?
- Bolsonaro: No, no, no. The bracelet, no
- Agent: No?
- Bolsonaro: It didn’t break the bracelet, no
- Agent: Okay. Bracelet apparently intact, but case broken
- Agent: What time did you start doing this, Jair?
- Bolsonaro: Late in the afternoon
- Agent: Late afternoon? It’s true. Did this lid come off or not?
- Bolsonaro: No, he didn’t let go, no
The former president had been at home since August 4 and was taken by the PF after the minister, rapporteur of the case at the STF, was ordered to arrest, under the justification of guaranteeing public order.
Attorney General of the Republic, also spoke in favor of the arrest, “given the urgency and seriousness of the new facts presented”.
Moraes, when determining the arrest, cited Bolsonaro’s electronics in the early morning, and one called by the senator (PL-RJ), the ex-president’s eldest son.
In a note, those that the arrest was based on the holding of a “prayer vigil”, guaranteed by the Constitution, and that Moraes’ determination caused “deep perplexity”. Lawyers Celso Vilardi and Paulo Bueno also state that they will “present the appropriate appeals”.
The PF arrived at Bolsonaro’s house around 6 am, in a convoy with at least five cars. The former president was taken around 20 minutes later to the PF Superintendence, where he will be detained.
Since his arrest, allies of the former president have classified information about Bolsonaro’s attempt to damage the equipment as “narrative”.
In the morning, the leader of the opposition in the Chamber, Zucco (PL-RS), sent a message to a WhatsApp group with opposition parliamentarians with guidelines and strategies to be adopted. In it, he states that it was necessary to understand what “is fact and what is narrative” and whether or not there was “any evidence related to the story of the alleged attempt to break the anklet”.
“If this is false — and so far there is NO element that indicates this — we need to respond with strength and technique, not with disordered emotion,” said the parliamentarian in the message.
