Overview
- Federal Police detained Jair Bolsonaro at about 6 a.m. at his Brasília residence and moved him to a special room at the force’s headquarters.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes wrote that Bolsonaro’s ankle monitor was altered at 12:08 a.m., and that the planned vigil outside his home could facilitate a getaway, with nearby embassies noted as potential destinations.
- Authorities stressed the measure is preventive to protect public order and enforce the law, not the start of his 27-year, 3-month sentence for leading a post-2022 election coup plot.
- Bolsonaro’s lawyers had just sought home confinement on health grounds after a hospital stay that included diagnoses of in‑situ skin carcinomas, and they said they will challenge the decision.
- Reports say other allies also face measures in the same case, including an order for the preventive arrest of former intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem after indications he left the country.