The minister Alexandre de Moraesof , awaits the manifestation of the defense of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) to decide whether possession of a firearm in your home constitutes “serious misconduct” during humanitarian house arrest.
The case was opened after the seizure of a 9 mm Glock pistol registered in the name of the former president. The weapon was found on June 15 in a vehicle driven by military officer Estácio Leite da Silva Filho, who works in Bolsonaro’s security detail.
In a statement to the Civil Police, Bolsonaro admitted to owning the pistol and said he kept it at home while under house arrest. He justified his possession by saying he could not “become unarmed” for having “Three Women in the House”his wife, Michelle, his daughter, Laura, and his stepdaughter, Letícia.
According to Moraes, the Criminal Execution Law classifies as serious misconduct the improper possession of an instrument capable of injuring third parties. If the infraction is recognized, Bolsonaro may face sanctions during the execution of the sentence, including regime regression and the end of humanitarian house arrest.
Before deciding whether the seizure of the firearm could impact the former president’s house arrest, Moraes granted a 48-hour deadline for demonstrations by the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) and defense.
In the opinion sent to the STF on Thursday (25), Paulo Gonet . For the PGR, the episode is still in its initial phase and, for now, there are not enough elements to characterize disciplinary misconduct or non-compliance with the conditions imposed on the former president.
The position also points out that the configuration of a fault as serious “requires more than the subsumption of the fact to the norm, demanding the analysis of the impacts of illicit conduct on the legal order and on the object and purpose of criminal execution”.
With the PGR’s opinion already added to the case file, the process now awaits the defense’s response. Moraes will then decide whether to order Bolsonaro’s return to the 19th Military Police Battalion of the Federal District, Papudinhaor comply with the guidance of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and await the outcome of the investigation conducted by the DF Civil Police.
