Overview

• STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes denied a defense request on October 7 to revoke Alan Diego dos Santos Rodrigues’ custody after the PGR urged continued detention for public-safety reasons.
• Moraes cited evidence of Rodrigues’ direct role in placing the device and concluded his release would present a concrete risk of reoffending and to public order.
• The ruling rejected the argument that passing 90 days without a new order automatically voids custody, aligning with STF precedent that the lapse does not trigger release.
• Rodrigues was sentenced in 2023 to five years and four months, progressed to an open regime in 2024, and was re-arrested on July 27 after alleged breaches of monitoring and court-appearance requirements.
• Rodrigues, along with George Washington de Oliveira Sousa and Wellington Macedo de Souza, faces charges including attempted abolition of the democratic order and attacks on air-transport safety, stemming from a 2022 device planted on a fuel truck near Brasília’s airport that police safely detonated without disrupting operations.