Minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the First Panel of the Federal Supreme Court, stated in his vote this Monday (24) that former president Jair Bolsonaro “intentionally and consciously” violated the electronic ankle bracelet, and that he confessed to the act at the custody hearing.
“There is no doubt, therefore, about the need to convert house arrest into preventive detention”, stated the minister. According to him, house arrest, decreed in August after “reiterated non-compliance with precautionary measures” did not prevent “continuity in disrespect for precautionary measures”.
“On the contrary, it expanded last Friday, 21/11, when Jair Messias Bolsonaro intentionally and consciously violated the electronic monitoring equipment, as evidenced by the SEAP/DF report ‘about electronic monitoring’”, highlighted Moraes in the vote.
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The , in a virtual plenary this Monday (24), whether or not the preventive detention ordered by Moraes, rapporteur of the case, in the early hours of Saturday (22) is maintained. Ministers Moraes and Flávio Dino voted in favor of maintaining the prison, while the votes of magistrates Carmén Lucia and Cristiano Zanin are still missing.
In the vote, Moraes also highlighted that, during the custody hearing, Bolsonaro confessed that he disabled the electronic ankle bracelet with “commitment of serious misconduct, blatant non-compliance with the precautionary measure and patent disrespect for Justice”. The minister, however, made no mention of the justification given by the former president, that he was in a psychotic episode due to the side effects of medications administered by his doctors.
