Moraes Orders Preventive Arrest of Bolsonaro as Federal Police Detain Him in Brasília

Overview

• Federal Police cited a risk to public order after Senator Flávio Bolsonaro urged a vigil outside the former president’s residence, and Minister Alexandre de Moraes granted the preventive warrant.
• Detained around 6 a.m., Bolsonaro was taken to the PF superintendence in Brasília, placed in a reserved “sala de Estado,” and arrested under instructions for no handcuffs or media exposure.
• The decision applies only to Bolsonaro, and no similar warrants were issued for other defendants convicted in the same case.
• Bolsonaro’s defense asked to keep him under humanitarian house arrest, submitting a medical report listing ten serious conditions and arguing that ordinary incarceration would endanger his life.
• In a separate development, Moraes ordered the preventive arrest of deputy Alexandre Ramagem after PF found he left Brazil despite a travel ban and is in the United States, a move jurists say does not legally affect Bolsonaro’s case.