Bolsonaro’s Bolsonaro says ‘hallucinations’ led to arrest, judge says – nationally
In his first full day in prison, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday that he broke his ankles a day before running out of a house before losing his mind and having a mental breakdown caused by a change in his medication.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the 70-year-old leader Jailing Jabuli to prison because he is considered a flight risk. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for trying to deal with the President’s organization after his election defeat.
“(Bolsonaro) said he had ‘Hallucinations’ that there was a phone tap on the ankle monitor, so he tried to uncover it, as reported by the Supreme Court document published on Sunday shortly after his online meeting with his former president online.
Sorrentino added that Bolsonaro told him that “he did not remember the violation of this moment,” 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 states that Bolsonaro also told the judge that he had not slept well and was feeling “a certain paranoia” that fueled his curiosity to open the ankle monitor.
“(BOLsonaro) said he had his daughter, elder brother and brother in his house, none of them saw what he was doing. “He said he started touching her late at night and stopped at midnight.”
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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 agreement and keep the Presidency after being defeated by Luiz Inácio LULA DA Silva in 2022.
On Monday, the same panel will vote on the order of arrest.
Bolsonaro’s meeting with an assistant judge on Sunday was procedural to discuss the legality of his jailing, but also provided another opportunity for his lawyers to argue that he should remain under house arrest due to poor health. De Moraes has 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 impeachment before the G20 group of Nations in South Africa. “The court has issued a decision, that is decided. Everyone knows what he did,” Lula 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.
-Shavarese reported from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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