The former Brazilian president was sent to a maximum-security federal prison in the country after he attempted to tamper with his ankle monitor while under house arrest. The Supreme Court Justices, headed by De Moraes, who upheld his prison sentence, feared he might try to flee the country.
A bench of four Supreme Court justices unanimously upheld the verdict to incarcerate Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro after he was arrested over the weekend when he tampered with his ankle monitor. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro's detention on Saturday, after finding that his ankle bracelet had been tampered with by a sharp object.
Bolsonaro had been under house arrest while waiting to appeal against his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a failed coup, with the assistance of several others. On Monday, Justices Flavio Dino, Cristiano Zanin and Carmen Lucia upheld de Moraes' order.
On Saturday, Brazilian authorities said the former, far-right president had used a soldering iron on his ankle monitor. De Moraes, who was also among the figures on the list of the alleged assassination plot targeting him and others, ruled that the former president "wilfully and consciously violated the electronic monitoring equipment."
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He highlighted a very serious indication of a “possible attempt to flee the country” during a vigil which Bolsonaro's son had organised on Saturday outside his father’s house, near the US embassy.
He added that assembling a crowd near the US embassy was a clear indication that the former Trump loyalist president of Brazil was attempting to flee the country by seeking asylum in the US embassy, extending a diplomatic shield over Bolsonaro. Had he managed to enter the US embassy, no power on earth could have prevented him from fleeing the country, quite likely to the US.
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