Minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) Alexandre de Mores decided to keep () detained at the Regional Superintendence of the Federal Police in the Federal District.
The magistrate made official this Tuesday (25) that the former president was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison. He also declared the final judgment of the other defendants from the crucial group and ordered the arrest of those who were still free.
With this, former ministers Augusto Heleno ee began serving the sentence to which they were sentenced in the same action.
Moraes also ordered that Anderson Torres serve his sentence in the 19th Military Police Battalion of the Federal District, known as “Papudinha”, located in .
Bolsonaro will be imprisoned in the so-called General Staff room, a space where he does not interact with other inmates and there is greater comfort than in a prison. The current structure is a 12 m² room, with television, air conditioning, private bathroom and a desk.
The former president was under house arrest until last Saturday (22), when he was taken to the regional headquarters in Brasília, on orders from Moraes.
The preventive measure was taken under the argument of risk of flight and not as part of the sentence imposed on him for attempting a coup d’état, which will now occur, after the criminal action in the Supreme Court on the case becomes final.
Before his preventive detention, Bolsonaro tried to violate the electronic ankle bracelet with a soldering iron, like himself. “I used a hot iron, a hot iron… curiosity,” said the former president to an agent who went to the scene to check the status of the device.
Bolsonaro’s medical team spoke of “mental confusion and hallucinations” to explain the episode and attributed it to the drug interaction. Later, 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”.
Final decision
Moraes’ decisions were taken eight months after the STF received the complaint against the accused in the crucial group.
Four of those convicted presented appeals this Monday (24) to Moraes. Bolsonaro’s defense, which denies that he committed any crime, preferred not to present new challenges.
The First Panel of the STF on September 11, for attempted coup d’état, on charges of . It was the first time in the country’s history that a former president was .
Rapporteur of the case, coup plotter launched during his government, which included pressure on military commanders to adopt exceptional measures that would prevent Lula (PT) from taking office and keep him in power — a scenario that had not been seen in the country for 60 years.
