Brasilia, Brazil
AP
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On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro informed a decide on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day earlier than at his home arrest due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations brought on by a change in his treatment.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the 70-year-old chief’s preemptive jailing Saturday for he’s thought-about a flight threat. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for making an attempt a coup to stay within the presidency after his 2022 electoral defeat.
“(Bolsonaro) said he had ‘hallucinations’ that there was some wire tap in the ankle monitoring, so he tried to uncover it,” assistant decide Luciana Sorrentino stated, as reported in a Supreme Court doc printed on Sunday shortly after her on-line assembly with the previous president.
Sorrentino added that Bolsonaro informed her he “did not remember having a breakdown of this magnitude in another occasion,” and speculated it might need been brought on by a change in his treatment final week. He as soon as once more denied that he meant to escape.
The doc additionally says Bolsonaro additionally informed the decide he hadn’t been sleeping effectively and was feeling “a certain paranoia” that stimulated his curiosity into opening the ankle monitoring gadget.
“(Bolsonaro) said he was with his daughter, his elder brother and an aide at his house and none of them saw what he was doing to the ankle monitoring,” the doc says. “He said he started to touch it late at night and stopped around midnight.”
De Moraes obtained info that the far-right chief’s ankle monitor was violated at 12:08 a.m. on Saturday. The arrest order got here hours later.
A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court dominated in September that Bolsonaro tried to stage a coup and keep the presidency after his defeat by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022.
On Monday, the identical panel will vote on the preemptive arrest order.
Bolsonaro’s assembly with an assistant decide on Sunday was procedural to talk about the legality of his jailing, but additionally supplied one other alternative for his attorneys to argue he ought to stay underneath home arrest due to poor well being. De Moraes has beforehand rejected comparable requests.
De Moraes approved Bolsonaro to be visited by former first woman Michelle Bolsonaro, who was out of Brasilia when federal police brokers took her husband into custody.
Lula made his first feedback about his predecessor’s jailing on the G20 group of countries assembly in South Africa. “The court ruled, that’s decided. Everyone knows what he did,” Lula informed journalists.
Outside the federal police headquarters, some pro-Bolsonaro protesters held banners calling for Lula and de Moraes to be faraway from their posts, whereas detractors of the previous president celebrated his jailing.