Overview
- Federal police took Jair Bolsonaro into custody in Brasília on orders from Justice Alexandre de Moraes, a move the court emphasized is preventive and not the execution of his September sentence.
- A court-released video shows Bolsonaro admitting he applied a hot tool to his electronic ankle monitor, which displayed burn marks after a post‑midnight alert from the device.
- De Moraes pointed to a vigil urged by Bolsonaro’s son outside the residence and the nearby foreign embassies as factors that could facilitate an escape or an asylum bid.
- Bolsonaro’s lawyers sought to serve any custody at home on health grounds, and the Supreme Court rejected his request to remain under house arrest following the detention.
- The former president is being held at a federal police facility, and the Supreme Court is expected to weigh related filings and the status of his appeals in the coming days.