Overview
- Federal police took Bolsonaro from his Brasília residence around 6 a.m. to the force’s headquarters after executing a Supreme Court preventive arrest warrant.
- De Moraes’s ruling said the ankle monitor was violated at 12:08 a.m. and cited a plan to break the device during a rally encouraged by his son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
- The detention is precautionary and separate from the September conviction, as appeals continue and a final imprisonment order on the 27-year, three-month sentence has not been issued.
- Bolsonaro was sentenced by a five-judge Supreme Court panel for leading a plot to block the 2022 transfer of power, with convictions including organizing a coup and participating in an armed criminal organization.
- On Friday his lawyers sought permission for him to serve any term under house arrest on health grounds, citing complications from a 2018 stabbing and related medical issues.