The governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (New), said this Monday (24) that the situation of the former president’s preventive detention Jair Bolsonaro (PL), compared to ordinary prisoners, “was very agile”.
after determination by the minister Alexandre de Moraesdo STF (Supreme Federal Court)for violating his electronic ankle bracelet. He confessed that he used a soldering iron to try to open the monitoring equipment.
“I had already taken a proposal to the minister [Ricardo] Lewandowski, last year, in March, I and all the governors of the South and Southeast, regarding the electronic ankle bracelet. Because today, when a detainee is wearing an electronic ankle bracelet and it breaks, he needs an arrest warrant, which often takes months to be issued,” said Zema during an event in São Paulo.
“And it seems to me that in this case it was much faster, another sign that there is political persecution. If a murderer breaks his ankle bracelet, he will spend months until he gets that warrant. And in the last few days, what we have seen is that everything was very quick”, continued the governor of Minas Gerais.
Last Sunday (23), during a custody hearing, the former president stated that he had a “a certain paranoia” between Friday (21) and Saturday.
This would have happened due to medications they have been taking, prescribed by different doctors, and which interacted inappropriately. The former Chief Executive also said that he sleeps “chopped up” and doesn’t sleep well.
In his speech, he claimed that these factors led him, around midnight, to touch the ankle bracelet with a soldering iron, because he had a course in operating this type of equipment.
Afterwards, he mentioned that “having come to his senses” he stopped using solder, at which time he informed the prison officers who monitor his custody.
