In July he asked the former President (PL) (PL) to the argument that he was trying to interfere with.
In the evaluation of the investigators, the performance of the federal deputy (PL-SP) with the government in search of was funded by the former president-the main beneficiary of the offensive in the United States.
The (Attorney General’s Office), however, considered the measurement harder than necessary at that time. As an alternative path, the Attorney General suggested that precautionary measures be applied against Bolsonaro, such as the use of an electronic anklet and the ban on access to embassies headquarters from foreign countries.
STF ministers even evaluated scenarios of a pre-trial detention of the former president ,. The assessment was that the attempt to obstruct the process was sufficient reason for the detention of Bolsonaro.
Gonet’s suggestion was considered more appropriate for the moment, with the understanding that the arrest could cause disagreement in the court and precipitate a Bolsonaro victimization process.
The representation of the PF calling for Bolsonaro’s arrest is under confidentiality. Its content was revealed by the State of S. Paulo and confirmed by Sheet.
Minister Alexandre de Moraes decided on July 18 to apply precautionary measures against Bolsonaro. He determined the use of electronic anklet and home collection from 7 pm to 7am and on weekends and vetoed access to social networks and contact with his son Eduardo, who is in the US.
The determination was given two days after Trump announced a 50% surcharge on Brazilian products.
The condition imposed by the US President to reverse the tariff was the filing of the case against Bolsonaro and allies for the attempted coup.
The precautionary measures were endorsed by the first class of the Supreme Court on July 21. There were four votes to one, defeated Minister Luiz Fux.
Gonet defended the Supreme Court that there was evidence that Bolsonaro acted in conjunction with Eduardo to “obstruct the process safe course” on the coup plot.
The prosecutor also saw the possibility of Bolsonaro trying to escape from the country. The fear was based on US government support for the offensive against the Supreme and the former president’s history of having after having his passport seized.
“The situation described reveals urgent and undeclain necessity, able to justify the imposition of new precautionary measures that may ensure the application of criminal law and avoid the defendant’s escape,” Gonet said in the petition.
In the decision, Moraes stated that national sovereignty cannot be vilified or extorted.
“A sovereign country like Brazil will always know how to defend its democracy and sovereignty and the judiciary will not allow any attempt to submit the operation of the Supreme Court to the sieve of another state […] To create true criminal impunity and favor the defendant Jair Messias Bolsonaro, “said the minister.
Bolsonaro ended up having his house arrest decreed on Monday (4) after Moraes considered that the former president failed, in two moments, the precautionary measures imposed by the Supreme.
The revelation of the previous representation of the PF reinforces, however, that Bolsonaro’s arrest was already considered before.
As Sheet He showed the day after setting the electronic anklet in the former president, the attempt to obstruct the process was already seen by ministers of the Supreme as sufficient reason for the decree of pre-trial detention.
The measure was the subject of conversations in the court in the days preceding the imposition of precautionary measures, according to a STF minister, under reserve. The evaluation, however, was that the application of alternative restrictions would be more appropriate at this time.
This view took into account the perception that a decree of imprisonment before a definitive conviction could cause differences in the Supreme Court and expose a divided court, at a time when ministers tried to build a unified response to what they classify as Trump attacks.
In addition to the court unit, calibration was sought to prevent Bolsonaro’s victimization. In the assessment of a minister, pockets could insist on the argument that the former president is the subject of persecution of the judiciary.
This magistrate recalls that the institution of the anklet was born as an alternative to pre -trial detention, adopted when precautionary are not enough. Discarded an abusive measure, the assessment is that the court could not be accused of leniency in the face of indications of the existence of an escape plan.
