He former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro He was detained this Thursday again in the Federal Police cell where he is serving his duty. 27-year prison sentence for coupafter receiving a medical discharge after having undergone four operations in the eight days in which he was hospitalized. The leader of the Brazilian far-right left the DF Star Hospital in Brasilia at 6:43 p.m. Brazilian time (9:43 p.m. GMT) and was taken to the headquarters of the superintendency of the Federal Police from the Brazilian capital in a caravan of police vehicles with a large escort of motorcyclists.
The former president He has been serving his sentence since November in a special cell of the police institution, which he left on December 24 after the Supreme Court authorized his transfer to the hospital to undergo surgery to correct two inguinal hernias.
Weakened health
His return to prison occurred a few hours after the highest court reject the new request for house arrest on humanitarian grounds filed by the Army Reserve captain’s attorneys. The lawyers alleged that the former president’s health is very weakened after four operations to which he was subjected, since his doctors took the opportunity to perform three surgeries aimed at resolving the hiccups that he has been complaining about for several months, and asked that he be granted house arrest for humanitarian and health reasons.
In a press conference on Wednesday, however, the doctors of the Brazilian far-right leader stated that, although they did not completely solve the hiccups, the former president’s health is stableso they authorized the discharge.
Violation of precautionary measures
In the ruling in which he denied the new appeal, Judge Alexander de Moraes stated that for now The legal requirements for granting house arrest are not metespecially given the convicted person’s repeated violations of the precautionary measures that were imposed when he was provisionally serving his sentence at his residence. Moraes recalled that Bolsonaro destroyed the electronic anklet with which his movements were monitored in an apparent escape attempt.
“It is also highlighted that, unlike what was alleged by the defense, Bolsonaro’s health situation did not worsen and that, on the contrary, his clinical status shows improvement of the problems that he had been complaining about after performing new elective surgeries, as indicated in the report of his own doctors,” the ruling states.
Disqualified agent
According to his doctors, both the surgery for correction of inguinal hernias to which he was subjected on December 25, as the three different operations to block the bilateral phrenic nerves of the diaphragm in order to control his recurrent hiccup attacks, were carried out as planned.
Bolsonaro was convicted in September by the Supreme Court for “leading” a plot to try to “perpetuate himself in power” after lose the 2022 presidential election before the current ruler, the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In addition to the sentence, the former president is disqualified from contesting elections until 2060.
Although he initially served his sentence in house arrestDe Moraes ordered his confinement in a closed regime after the former president violate the electronic anklet that he carried. His lawyers have requested several times that he be granted house arrest for humanitarian reasons given his delicate state of health, but, so far, the Supreme Court has denied all appeals.
With the trial concluded and no longer entitled to new resources, Bolsonaro’s only hope to regain his freedom, or at least reduce his sentence, is a amnesty law to those convicted of the coup acts that is being discussed in Congress.
