The arrest of Jair Bolsonaro occurs a day after his lawyers asked the high court to be able to serve the 27-year prison sentence he received for attempted coup d’état under house arrest for health reasons.
The Federal Police of Brazil preventively detained former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro this Saturday, November 22, convicted of attempted coup d’état and who was already in house arrest, local media reported.
A group of agents went to Bolsonaro’s residence, in Brasilia, and arrested the leader, who was immediately taken to police stations.
According to the Globo group, the Brazilian Supreme Court decreed the preventive detention of the former president to “guarantee public order.”
The Federal Police of Brazil reported in a brief note that “this Saturday, in Brasilia, it carried out a preventive detention order in accordance with a decision of the Supreme Court,” although it did not specify against whom.
The arrest of former head of state It occurs a day after his lawyers asked the high court to be able to serve the 27-year prison sentence he received for attempted coup d’état under house arrest for health reasons.
On September 11, Bolsonaro was condemned by the First Chamber of the Supreme Court for trying to “perpetuate” himself in power with the support of former ministers and military commanders, after losing the 2022 elections against the current ruler, the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The 70-year-old leader had been under house arrest at his residence in Brasilia since August 4 for failing to comply with a series of precautionary measures within the framework of that case.
According to local media, this Saturday’s preventive detention is not about the beginning of the execution of the sentence, which was expected in the coming weeks, after the rejection by the Supreme Court of the first appeals against the sentence.
Within the framework of the coup process, the Supreme Court also ordered the preventive detention of deputy Alexandre Ramagem, an ally of Bolsonaro and who was also convicted in the same trial of the former president, after supposedly having fled to the United States.
Investigations indicate that the parliamentarian left Brazil last September through the state of Roraima, bordering Venezuela, and continued clandestinely to that country or to French Guiana, before heading to the United States.
Ramagem, former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, received a sentence of 16 years in closed prison for the crimes of criminal organization, coup d’état and violent abolition of the Democratic State of Law.
With information from EFE
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