Overview
- The court said all appeals are exhausted, making his sentence for orchestrating efforts to overturn the 2022 election legally final.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes moved him from house arrest to preventive detention, citing deliberate tampering and public-order concerns tied to a planned vigil.
- De Moraes decided Bolsonaro will begin serving time at Brasília's federal police headquarters, where he has been held since the weekend, pending assignment of a permanent facility.
- In court-released statements and video, Bolsonaro admitted using a soldering iron on the device and attributed his actions to medication-fueled paranoia and hallucinations; his lawyers renewed a medical request for house arrest.
- Brazilian media reported the Supreme Court also finalized sentences for several co-defendants, and federal police detained ex-ministers Augusto Heleno and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira.