The former president’s version () that he damaged his electronic ankle bracelet because it was on is accepted by 33% of Brazilians, but 54% agree with the minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), and think that he was preparing an escape.
This is what was measured from Tuesday (2) to Thursday (4), listening to 2,002 voters in 113 Brazilian municipalities. The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus two points. A considerable 13% of those interviewed were unable to say what they thought of the episode.
The overall result is verified homogeneously among the main socioeconomic segments of the research, with the largest nominal variations, but within the specific margin of error, side by side in two groups. Young people aged 16 to 24 believe more in escape (60%), while the richest believe in the outbreak (40%).
In political terms, the outbreak is more universally accepted among groups linked to Bolsonarism. 40% of residents of the South and North/Mid-West, 46% of evangelicals and 66% of voters for the former president in the second round of 2022 believe in this. The hypothesis of an escape attempt finds more echo among northeasterners (61%) and among those who voted for (66%).
of the dizzying succession of facts in the final stretch of the process in which the politician was convicted of the coup plot to try to stay in Planalto and prevent Lula (PT) from taking office.
on November 22nd, a Saturday.
Bolsonaro since August 4th, already wearing an ankle bracelet, due to non-compliance with precautionary measures ordered by Moraes while awaiting his trial, whose sentence of 27 years and three months in prison was handed down on September 11th.
At that time, an equipment violation alert sounded at the central office of the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat of the Federal District. Agents called the house and heard a report that he had hit his ankle bracelet on a staircase,
Arriving there, Bolsonaro showed his ankle bracelet, “out of curiosity”. Moraes considered the risk of flight, which he suspected when the son of former president Flávio called a “prayer vigil” for that Saturday in front of his father’s residence.
For the minister, the confusion would be used to remove the former president from the location and take him to the USA, Argentina or Hungary — where Bolsonaro slept suspiciously for two nights in 2024. Diplomatic territories are inviolable.
Initially, Bolsonaro’s supporters tried to link the arrest to an alleged religious repression, but as soon as the images of the agent checking the damaged ankle bracelet were released, the idea that the politician had freaked out.
He gave this explanation of custody with Moraes the following day (23), adding that he was paranoid about the possibility of the device being tapped.
His lawyers suggested the episode was caused by a combination of medications for other health problems, such as constant hiccups, but doctors considered the hypothesis remote.
Since then, Bolsonaro has been imprisoned at the PF superintendence in Brasília, in a simple room with a bathroom. at the scene and denied the request for house arrest after the end of the process, on the 25th.
