The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) sent to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), this Friday (20), an opinion opposing the request for house arrest presented by the defense of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison for an attempted coup.
The manifestation occurs after the medical examination determined within the scope of the execution of the sentence. The case’s rapporteur at the STF, minister Alexandre de Moraes, had asked the defense and PGR to take a position on the report’s conclusions.
On the 11th, Bolsonaro’s lawyers reiterated the request for humanitarian house arrest. The defense argued that the former president has chronic comorbidities, with heart and respiratory problems, as well as sequelae from abdominal surgeries, which, according to lawyers, would put his health at risk under the current regime.
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In the opinion signed by the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, the PGR maintains that the medical examination was “categorical in concluding that the comorbidities presented do not require assistance at hospital level, ensuring the viability of treatment in the current place of detention”.
The agency also recalls that Moraes had already rejected previous requests for domicile based on the “seriousness of concrete acts aimed at escape and the repeated non-compliance with precautionary measures” by Bolsonaro.
In the document, the PGR states that there was no relevant change in the factual framework that would justify a review of the understanding.
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“Given that the factual reality has not undergone substantial change, and considering that the battalion has 24-hour medical assistance and an advanced SAMU unit, the jurisprudential understanding of the Federal Supreme Court remains intact, which reserves house arrest only for cases in which essential medical treatment cannot be offered in the custody unit, a situation that does not occur in the present case”, says the text.
Bolsonaro began serving his sentence on November 25th, at the Federal Police Superintendency in Brasília, where he had already been preventively detained since the 22nd of the same month.
