Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), determined yesterday (25) that federal deputy Daniel Silveira (União Brasil-RJ) should once again wear an electronic ankle bracelet and be prohibited from leaving Petrópolis (RJ), the city in which he maintains residence, unless it is in the direction of Brasília, where he exercises his mandate.
Other precautionary measures were imposed, such as the ban on participating in “any public event throughout the national territory”. Failure to comply with any of these determinations “will naturally and immediately result in the reinstatement of the arrest warrant,” Moraes determined.
The minister responded to the request of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), who, in a statement signed by the deputy attorney Lindôra Araújo, argued that Silveira continues to present “criminal behavior” when publicly proffering “numerous offenses” against ministers of the Supreme Court and the court itself.
One of Silveira’s main targets, the deputy attorney pointed out, has been Moraes himself. Lindôra Araújo stressed that in speeches during events with wide dissemination on social networks, the deputy continues to say that Supreme Court ministers have “crossed the line” and that “only the Chief Executive can stop this”.
Silveira was even arrested in the act in February 2021, as part of an investigation that investigates the performance of acts against democratic institutions, after he released videos with threats to Supreme Court ministers. He later became a defendant in the same lawsuit.
The preventive detention was later converted to house arrest, but he ended up returning to prison in June, by Moraes’ decision, after having violated electronic monitoring at least 22 times.
In a demonstration to the Supreme, the deputy claimed that he forgot to carry the electronic ankle bracelet due to medication that caused sleep, among other justifications. When he was released in November last year, he had house arrest replaced by other precautionary measures, including the ban on using social networks.
