Sao Paulo – A justice on the Supreme Court of Brazil, despite its defeat in the 2022 election, a case to hold the South American country – A case that is facing a trade war with the Trump administration, as a coup after conspiring a coup, ordered the arrest of former President Zayar Bolsono on the Supreme Court of Brazil on Monday.
Justice Alexandre D Mores, who oversees the case against Bolsoro before the apex court, stated in his judgment that the 70 -year -old former President had violated the precautionary measures taken on them by spreading material through three of his legislative sons.
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Bolsono lawyers said in a statement that he would appeal to the decision. He said that his words “auspicious afternoon, Kopakbana, Good afternoon Mai Brazil, embrace everyone, it is for our freedom” – a broadcast in Rio de Janeiro from a cell phone of one of his sons during Sunday’s protest – “ignored of precautionary measures or ignored as a criminal act”. ,
The testing of far-flung leader is getting focus after the President Trump directly tied 50% tariff on imported Brazil goods for his colleague’s judicial positionMr. Trump has called the proceedings a “witch hunting”, triggering nationalist reactions from all the branches of power in Brazil, including President Luiz Eneasio Lula Da Silva.
Hours after the verdict, the Bureau of the Western Hemisphere of the US State Department said on X that the Trump administration condemned the order of Moras, who implemented the House Arrest on Bolsoro and would blame them all and end the approved conduct. ,
“Jair Bolsonaro’s public service is not even more banned on the ability to protect themselves. Let it speak Bolsoro!” The post said.
The Brazilian government has not commented on the case.
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Brazilian prosecutors have accused Bolsorno of a criminal organization A conspiracy to reverse the election including a plan to kill Lula And after Justice Day Mores, the far-flung leader lost his reunion in 2022.
Following Monday’s order, one of the apex court last month ordered Bolsoro to wear an electronic ankle monitoring and proceedings are underway, while a curfew is being imposed on their activities.
Following the news of the arrest order, an employee of Brazilian federal police said that the Associated Press Federal Agents in their judgment had seized a cell phone at Bolsono’s residence in Brasilia’s capital in their judgment. The employee publicly spoke on the condition of anonymity not to print due to lack of authority to speak about the matter.
De Morace also warned that any new crime would be detained, the French news agency AFP report.
Bolsoro is expected to stay in Brasilia to arrest his home as he is not allowed to travel. He also has a house in Rio de Janeiro, where he laid his electoral basis as a legalist for three decades. The former Army captain is the fourth former President of Brazil since the end of the country’s military rule from 1964 to 1985, which was supported by Bolsoro.
This step from Brazilian justice comes a day later when thousands of Bolsono supporters took the streets in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio, pleading for the Brazilian Congress to forgive them and hundreds of others, who are either subject to testing or are in jail for their roles in the destruction of government buildings in Bascillia. 8, 2023.
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On Sunday, Bolsono addressed supporters in Rio via a son’s phone, which De Morace described as illegal.
Day Mores wrote, “The insult to the quarrel for precautionary measures was so clear that Sen Flavio Bolsoro, son of the defendant, decided to remove the posting in his Instagram profile, for the purpose of hiding the legal infection,” Wrote D. Mored.
Flavio Bolsono claimed on X that Brazil is “officially in a dictatorship” after the arrest of his father’s house. “There is no limit to the oppression of D Mores against Bolsoro!” The senator wrote.
D Morace said in its judgment that Jair Bolsonaro, who ruled Brazil between 2019 and 2022, has spread messages with “a clear material of encouragement for attacks against the Supreme Court and a clear material of a clear support for foreign intervention in the Brazilian judiciary – possibly a reference to the support of Sri Trump.
De Mored also said that Bolsoro addressed the protesters gathered in Kopakbana in Rio on Sunday, so his supporters could “try to force the Supreme Court.”
US back bolsoro takes on de mores
Last week, US Treasury Department announced sanctions on day mores On the alleged oppression of freedom of expression about the testing of Bolsoro. On Monday, the Bureau of the Western Hemisphere accused Brazil’s Justice “insulting a US-approved human rights” and accused the institutions to silence the protest and to threaten democracy “.
D Mores said in his judgment that “(Brazil’s) judiciary would not allow a defendant to make a fool.”
He said, “Justice is the same for all. A defendant who voluntarily ignores precautionary measures – the second time – should bear the legal results,” he said.
Political implications for Brazil
Kreomar de Suja, a political analyst of Dharma political risk and strategy, a political counseling firm in Brasilia, said Bolsonro’s House Arrest opened a new moment for the opposition of the country, which could collect steam in the fight against Lula’s reunion dialect next year.
Now, D Suja said, “The 2026 election looks like turmoil” and political debate in Brazil will be divided between two major struggles.
The analyst said, “It is an attempt to keep a Bolsoro supporters strong to the right, even if he is insisting for Amnesty in the Congress or physically excluding himself,” the analyst said. “The second is how the Lula administration will try to show that the country is the government.”
“This is just the beginning,” he concluded.
The latest decision of the apex court keeps Bolsoro under an ankle monitoring, allowing only family members and lawyers to travel and seizes all mobile phones from their home.
Lula was imprisoned for 580 days between 2018 and 2019 in a corruption sentence, which was later thrown out by the Supreme Court citing the judge’s bias in the case.
Michelle Temer, who became President after Dilma Roussef’s impeachment in 2016, was arrested in 2019 in connection with a graft investigation for 10 days, which later ended without sentence.
Earlier this year, De Morace ordered the detention of President Fernando Coleer, who was in the office from 1990 to 1992 until he was impeached. The 75 -year -old former President was convicted of money laundering and corruption in 2023 and is now serving a sentence of over eight years.
Hours after the order, right -wing MPs criticized D Mores’s decision and compared the status of Bolsoro to their predecessors.
“House arrest for Jer Bolsono by Day Mores. Reason: Corruption?” Asked MP Nicholas Ferreira. “No. His children posted their content on social media. Periburate.”
The next year’s election has already been stopped from the next year’s election due to the misuse of the punishment of power by the country’s top election court.
Left MLA Duda Salabert said that the house arrest of Bolsoro promoted Brazil’s democracy.
“And those who attack it are paying to pay,” Salabert said.