Bolsonaro says ‘hallucinations’ led Ex-Brazilian president to interfere with ankle monitoring
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In his first full day in prison, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday that he broke his ankle monitor the day before he was arrested due to a crackdown and an attack caused by a change in his medication.
The Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the 70-year-old in prison on Saturday because he considers the danger of flying. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for trying to deal with the President’s organization after his election defeat.
“[Bolsonaro] He said he had ‘plans’ that there was a certain wiretap in the ankle awareness, so he tried to uncover it, as it is reported in the written document of the Supreme Court published on Sunday, shortly after his previous meeting.
Sorrentino added that Bolsonaro told him that “he did not remember the violation of this moment at any other time” and speculated that it may have been caused by a change in his medicine last week. He again denied that he intended to run away.
The document also says that Bolsonaro also told the judge that he had not slept well and was feeling “a certain paranoia” that fueled his curiosity to turn on the ankle monitoring device.
“[Bolsonaro] He said he had his daughter, elder brother and brother in his house and none of them saw what he was doing in the ankles, “says the document.”
De Moraes received information that the ankle of the right leader was broken at 12:08 am on Saturday. The arrest warrant came hours later.
A panel of the Supreme Court of Brazil ruled in September that Bolsonaro tried to block the scene and keep the Presidency after being defeated by Luiz Inácio LULA DA Silva, known as Lula, in 2022.
On Monday, the same panel will vote on the pre-arrest order.
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced yesterday to 27 years in prison, hours after he was found guilty of plotting a plot to stay in power after losing the 2022 election. Mauricio Savarese of the Associated Press chronicles the case and the reaction from the public following his conviction.
Bolsonaro’s meeting with an assistant judge on Sunday was procedural to discuss the legality of his jailing, but it also provided another opportunity for his lawyers to argue that he should remain under house arrest due to poor health. The judge had previously rejected similar requests.
De Moraes authorized Bolsonaro to be visited by the former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, who was out of Brasilia when the federal police agents kept her husband.
Lula made his first comments about his previous firing at the G20 group of nations in South Africa this week. “The court has issued a decision, that is decided. Everyone knows what he did,” he told reporters.
Outside the Headquarters of the Federal Police, some Pro-Bolsonaro demonstrators held banners calling for Lula and De Moraes to be removed from their posts, while their detectors the President wanted to promote his imprisonment.
