The Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered this Tuesday the beginning of the execution of the 27-year prison sentence imposed Jair Bolsonaro. The former Brazilian president was convicted of coup d’étatand will serve his sentence in the offices of the Superintendency of the Federal Police in Brasilia, where he was already detained.
Bolsonaro has been detained in preventive detention at this same police headquarters since last Saturday, when he was arrested, in an action that the judge interpreted as an escape attempt. The start of serving the sentence was ordered after Bolsonaro’s defense renounce filing new appeals, for which he had until this Monday.
The defense presented some first appeals, but they were unanimously rejected by the four members of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court, responsible for the process.
The far-right leader had been under house arrest since last August for failing to comply with various precautionary measures that had been imposed on him during the process.
for having hatched a plan with the military to try to retain power after having lost the 2022 elections to the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The plot even set in motion a plan to assassinate the current president and other authorities and led to Parliament and the Supreme Court, perpetrated by thousands of Bolsonaro supporters on January 8, 2023.
Bolsonaro, leader of the far-right who governed between 2019 and 2022, denied last Sunday before a judge that his intention in trying to damage the electronic anklet with a homemade welder was a possible leak. In fact, the former president attributed that episode to “paranoia” and “hallucinations”caused by medications used to combat depression and other health problems.
Bolsonaro, 70 years old, suffers from episodes of anxiety, hiccups and vomiting, ailments that he attributes to the serious stab wound he received in the abdomen during the 2018 election campaign and which has since forced him to undergo several surgeries. Due to his condition, his lawyers had already announced that, if the sentence were declared final, they would once again request the benefit of house arrest, citing “humanitarian” reasons
