Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), accepted this Friday (19) a request from the defense of Jair Bolsonaro, arrested for an attempted coup d’état, and authorized the former president to perform surgery. The minister asked Bolsonaro’s defense to indicate the intended date of the surgery.
The former president has an inguinal hernia. The points out that the condition can be treated non-surgically, but that most surgeons recommend that the operation be performed. This is not, however, a case of urgency or medical emergency, even though PF experts have recommended that the surgery be carried out “as soon as possible”.
On the other hand, the minister denied a second request from the lawyers and rejected the possibility of house arrest. “In addition to the total absence of legal requirements for granting house arrest, the repeated non-compliance with precautionary measures other than prison and the various concrete acts aimed at escape indicate the need to serve the custodial sentence in a closed regime,” Moraes wrote in the decision.
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On November 22, Bolsonaro was taken to the Federal Police Superintendency after trying to remove the electronic ankle bracelet he was wearing using a loosening device. Three days later, the former president’s case became final and he began serving a sentence of 27 years and 3 months in prison.
The Supreme Court minister also decided on a request to change Bolsonaro’s physiotherapy schedule. Moraes denied the request: “Medical care
it must adapt to the schedules of the Regional Superintendency of the Federal Police in the Federal District (…) and not the other way around.”
Moraes rejected Bolsonaro’s appeal
Earlier this Friday, minister Alexandre de Moraes. In the decision, the judge stated that the appeal had a merely delaying nature and was intended to delay the final and unappealable decision of the criminal action.
Moraes highlighted that the STF’s jurisprudence is peaceful in requiring, for the application of infringing embargoes, the existence of at least two acquittal votes of its own, which did not occur in the trial of the former president.
*With information from Reuters.
