Overview
- Federal Police executed a preventive arrest in Brasilia on Saturday, moving Jair Bolsonaro from long‑term house arrest to the force’s headquarters for intake and a custody hearing.
- The ruling cites a 12:08 a.m. ankle‑monitor alert and an alleged plan to break the device, with a supporters’ vigil called by his son seen as a potential cover for escape.
- Court documents reference the proximity of Bolsonaro’s residence to foreign embassies and prior indications he considered seeking asylum abroad.
- Bolsonaro’s team disputes any breach of the monitor and is pressing for humanitarian house arrest on health grounds as they continue to appeal.
- He was sentenced in September to roughly 27 years for leading a plot to block Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, with Supreme Court review of the detention order pending and further appeal deadlines due this week.