The First Panel of the (Supreme Federal Court) holds an extra session this Monday (24) to endorse the decision of the minister who ordered the preventive detention of ().
Bolsonaro and taken to the corporation’s regional headquarters in Brasília.
The collegiate ministers will speak out about the judicial measure between 8 am and 8 pm in the virtual plenary — a system in which magistrates vote without holding debates.
In addition to Moraes, the First Panel includes ministers Flávio Dino (president), Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin. Luiz Fux recently migrated from this college.
When ordering the arrest on Saturday, Moraes mentioned in the early morning, the one in front of the condominium where the former president lives called by the senator (PL-RJ), his eldest son.
In the early hours of that day, Bolsonaro tried to violate the electronic ankle bracelet with a soldering iron, like himself.
“I used a hot iron, a hot iron there… curiosity,” said the former president to a server from the DF Penitentiary Administration Secretariat who went to the location to check the status of the device. Soldering iron that reaches high temperatures and allows metals to be melted.
The medical team accompanying Bolsonaro was at the PF Superintendence in DF this Sunday morning (23) and, after examining him, spoke of “mental confusion and hallucinations” to describe the episode and attributed it to drug interaction.
Shortly afterwards, when passing by, the former president said that it was because he had a “certain paranoia” due to the use of medication and that it was only afterwards that he “came to his senses”.
After the hearing, which lasted around 30 minutes, assistant judge Luciana Sorrentino, assigned to Moraes’ office, validated and maintained Bolsonaro’s preventive detention.
The defense, then, of the former president under the argument of not being a flight risk. “There is no risk of escape,” he said.
The lawyers claimed that, based on information from the DF body responsible for electronic ankle bracelets and, in particular, from the medical team accompanying the former president regarding medicines he ingested, “it is unequivocal that there was no attempt to escape or evade the application of criminal law”.
Bolsonaro’s representatives also want Moraes to comment on a proposal for the moment when the criminal execution of the coup plot begins, the next step in the process after the possibility of new appeals has been closed.
Moraes stopped analyzing this request after ordering the former president’s preventive detention on Saturday. This appeal will not be discussed in this second trial of the First Panel.
