Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro arrested
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Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after being determined a "concrete flight risk" while under house arrest.
The right-wing former Brazilian president was found guilty of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced to more than 27 in prison, but he remains under house arrest pending appeals.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the 70-year-old was a preventative measure after "new facts" came to light.
Bolsonaro admitted he had tried to open his ankle monitor with a soldering iron - but denied he wanted to remove it. Court officials said he wanted to use a planned rally outside outside his house as a cover to break free.
In a filing authorising the arrest, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former president's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his escape".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his son".
Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves a senator, called for a gathering of his supporters near his father's home to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on social media on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would enable supporters to "pray for his health and for the return of democracy in our country".
To explain his decision, Justice Moraes cited the possibility of Bolsonaro fleeing to foreign embassies, citing "a history of planning to request asylum through a diplomatic representation".
The court filing notes that the US embassy in the capital, Brasilia is located about 13km (8 miles) from Bolsonaro home.
Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President Donald Trump, prompting him to impose a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being held in in a police station in Brasilia and will undergo a custody hearing on Sunday.
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be allowed to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he required regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
SEE ALSO: Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in jail - what you need to know
They also asked that Bolsonaro be allowed to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he required regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Bolsonaro found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which included plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Moraes - who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy failed to get the backing of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on 8 January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in BrasÃlia. The security forces intervened and about 1,500 people were arrested.
The justices found that the rioters had been incited by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the military to step in and return him to power.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive".
He was also barred from running for public office until 2060 - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the trial a "witch hunt" and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.
well, it worked! He's going from house arrest to prison now
ReplyDeleteHe said he did that "out of curiosity".
ReplyDeleteBeing Bolsonaro's lawyer must be insufferable.
Old news friend: Far right here is saying he was hearing voices through the electronic tag!
Delete"Being Bolsonaro's lawyer must be insufferable."
DeleteIt must be awesome. Free money without worrying about actually winning the case.
He's gone mad.
DeleteNo, he's not. That was a failed escape attempt.
DeleteEasy to remove without tripping. The coward just needs to removed his foot.
ReplyDeleteSpineless coward
ReplyDeleteThe crisis isn't just moral, philosophical, political and aesthetic, it's cognitive too.
ReplyDeleteIm going to party so hard when this pos is gone
ReplyDeleteTorching?!
ReplyDeleteNever the sharpest knife in the room, this guy...
Lol. Lmao even
ReplyDeletehttps://i.imgur.com/iQCttVZ.png
Apparently, Donald Trump said he was going to meet Bolsonaro real soon, but was surprised to find out he was arrested. If American officials were involved in this attempted escape, it's amazing how incompetent they were in not being able to cut an electronic tag or provide him a foolproof way to do it.
ReplyDeleteOK, I'll bite: Why not just cut it?
ReplyDeleteCutting it sets off an alarm and alerts the cops (at least American ones do that), he probably tried to destroy the electronics before cutting it so the alarm wouldn’t go off.
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DeleteThese things got sensors on the belt AND on the case itself.
What people do is to just let the battery runs out, and then they flee or do whatever.
In the case of Bolsonaro, this wasn't possible since his house was surrouned by cops. So... Who knows why he did that (he was set to go prison sometime next week anyway).
Getting covid like 5 times might really have done a number on his mind
DeleteAre you alright?
DeleteI feel sorry for the prisoner that has to share a cell with Bolsonaro.
ReplyDeleteMentira que ele tentou fugir, e se tentou fugir não precisaria romper com a tornozeleira
ReplyDeletePensa comigo, o cara é ex-presidente e vive como ex-presidente, se ele realmente quisesse fugir era só fazer um telefonema pra alguém trazer um helicopitero na porta da casa dele, o cara vai lá pros EUA e remove a tornozeleira, o pessoal do Brasil vai ir lá buscar ele? haha DÚVIDO!!!!!
All that because daddy's boy decided to stir shit up and call for a vigil in front of his house.
ReplyDeleteMay the warden lose the keys.
EDIT: and apparently he tried to break his ankle monitor.
cool, now the current us president please
ReplyDeleteBolsonaro just copied what Trump did.
DeleteHe claimed the election was rigged and stolen. He'd started saying that long before the election took place anyway, so he wouldn't have to admit defeat if he lost. It also meant his supporters were already believing that the election would be been stolen from them, which was a lie.
So his supporters did pretty much a carbon copy of what the MAGA Trumpers did and thought they'd overthrow the fairly elected new President. Just as the MAGA attempt didn't work, nor did the Bolsonaro attempt. The difference is that the Brazilian justice system held Bolsonaro to account, unlike the American system which allowed Trump to delay, delay, delay and escape any form of justice for the actions he took after the 2020 election which he clearly lost.
It's not pretty much a carbon copy, it's an exact copy and Steve Bannon helped him do it.
DeleteI don't know how old you are but for others and maybe you, the original meaning of carbon copy may be lost.
DeleteWhen we were still doing paper receipts by hand there would be a top level receipt written and below that normal paper was another piece of special carbon paper. And when you would write on the top paper the writing would transfer to the second piece.
So you're supposed to end up with an exact copy of what you wrote on the top piece. Except it's not always exact, depending on how much pressure was applied the writing might not show and the writing was duller.
Just bored enough to share the story.
I certainly know what a carbon copy is. I also never felt like I was in danger of confusing the carbon copy with the original.
DeleteYes I agree. I just think it's a piece of technology that's so divorced from modernity that it's fun to repeat.
DeleteThey still use it on like tickets from cops.
DeleteBruh I haven't gotten a ticket in so long I forgot.
DeleteIsn't that what a "carbon copy" means?
DeleteThey are saying it is not "pretty much" a carbon copy, it is straight up a carbon copy.
DeleteThanks. Quoting the relevant words, like you did, would have helped.
DeleteWhat do you think a carbon copy is?
DeleteNot a copy that I would confuse for the original.
DeleteIf only! It really reflects badly on US democracy that their president attempts a coup and is cheered back into power.
DeleteI think it reflects more poorly on our society as a whole.
DeleteFor all the boasting Americans do about being the leading democracy, our voter turn in 2024 was roughly 64%. So basically, a third of our electorate doesn’t participate in democracy.
Because Banana Republic.
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DeleteYou were literally weeks away from that.
DeleteHe was convicted and about to be sentenced to jail and then you chucklefucks voted him President again.
I still do not understand how this was allowed.
I dont understand it either. Convicted felons can’t vote, but be elected?
DeleteThe reason for that is a pratical one.
DeleteImagine someone is facing Trump in the next election.
Then a couple months before the vote, he is jailed because... uh... he had a non explained apartment show up on his name.
Now, he might be corrupt as fuck, but you have very little evidence that THAT part was corrupt. But you just jail him long enough so he cant compete.
Sounds like something the current administration would do?
Dont threaten me with a good time...
DeleteHope springs eternal…
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DeleteWell, Bolsonaro is a traitor.
ReplyDeleteCala boca gringo, o cara lá dos estados unidos falando que o Bolsonaro é um traidor porque ele vê na midia, cara vai estudar, vem viver no brasil pra ver coe
DeleteBalela
ReplyDeleteAnother day, another instance of Americans reminded of how criminals should be treated.
ReplyDeleteDidn’t this happen already?
ReplyDeleteIn Brazil you only go to prison after your lawyers exhaust all appeals.
DeleteBut in the case of Bolsonaro, the court claims he tried to escape by tampering with his ankle monitor + his son told his supporters to hold him a vigil at his house which could cause chaos + one of his co-conspiratprs actually did flee into Guyana or Venezuela.
This time he went to jail, he was at home.
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DeletePorque esses wokes esquerdistas que eu suponho que sejam com base nos comentários estão falando isso e aquilo como se morassem no Brasil? como se tivessem certeza do que falam, o cara ve na internet e já sai cuspindo bobagem, estamos na era dos sabidos da internet, todo mundo entende de tudo! plmdds
ReplyDeletea notÃcia brasileira vive de fake news e não passa nada com as palavras corretas, sempre distorcendo tudo, imagina uma notÃcia brasileira para um americano, por isso esses caras caiem de paraquedas nas notÃcias 😂😂
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The judge cited evidence that Bolsonaro had previously considered seeking asylum in the Argentine embassy in Brasilia. One of his sons and other close allies have fled Brazil to avoid the reach of the country's courts, Moraes noted in his decision.
ReplyDeleteThe judge does not kid around.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-drafted-argentina-asylum-request-police-allege-2025-08-20/
He is a kind of authoritarian judge, but he was needed in this times where our institutions are at risk, I only hope he knows to tone himself down once things are calmer and our political turmoil is gone
DeleteSavages. Any civilized society knows that the proper way to deal with a criminal ex president is to give him more power, wealth and capitulate to him. /s
ReplyDeleteIt won't take long until he claims his poop bag busted and he can't feel his legs so he can be in a domicilial detainment
ReplyDeleteTaking into account that this donkey tried to break his ankle bracelet, he can claim whatever he wants and will remain in jail.
DeleteThrow him in prison already.
ReplyDeleteI agree. He's been given too many chances.
DeleteMeanwhile in America, they decided to re-elect the guy who tried to overthrow a government, denied election results and getting his ass impeached TWICE.
ReplyDeletetariffs incoming in....3....2.....1
ReplyDeleteDid they perp walk him?
ReplyDeleteThey didn’t. No handcuffs and no media, per the supreme court orders.
Deletehe and trump are peas in a pod. i can only hope for the day the police come for trump the way they did for bolsonaro
ReplyDeleteHe confessed to try to broke his ankle monitor with a soldering iron...
ReplyDeletePersecution, let's pray to brazil!
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ReplyDeletehttps://media1.tenor.com/m/9lMI79scYPUAAAAd/xand%C3%A3o-poderoso.gif
ReplyDeleteAlexandre de Voldemort!
DeleteSure thing, he did totally not want to try to escape jail by leaving the country
ReplyDeleteHis ankle was just itchin'.
DeleteTrump on Bolsonaro, the day he was arrested for tampering with his ankle monitor: "We are going to be meeting, I believe, in the very near future."
Deletecspan.org 2:10
https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-speaks-to-reporters/669532
Trump was helping Bolsonaro plot his escape from custody. The shock on his face at learning from a reporter that Bolsonaro was arrested again, was hilarious.
That is fucking bonkers. Sounded like usa was in on it
Delete"WHAT?!?!?"
DeleteBlood pressure medication. He can probably get a note from his doctor
ReplyDeleteHe did it as a joke
DeleteMaybe he just wanted some Johnny Cakes?
Delete"The Devil made me do it"-Flip Wilson (as Geraldine)
ReplyDeleteHey, I believe him!
ReplyDeleteJust as I believe he's fully capable of doing push-ups without looking like an overweight seal having a seizure.
Ambien strikes again!
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DeleteI hope the world develops an immunity to blatant gaslighting lying from 'leaders'.
ReplyDeleteIt's time. It's really fucking time we did.
Of course he's paranoid, his whole presidential campaign was based on paranoid fearmongering.
ReplyDelete"I sentence you to Zoloft and a straitjacket in a medical facility at a prison of our choosing until your transfer to your forever prison for crimes against the Brasilian nation and its peoples. And pay for the ankle monitor you broke."
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought that said pray for.
DeleteHe had a sudden bout of paranoia about going to prison for life immediately after he was sentenced to prison for life.
ReplyDeleteEven if this wasn't bullshit (it is), let's point our that there's about ZERO FUCKING REASON for someone like Bolsonaro to even own a soldering iron.
ReplyDeleteIt's not like this motherfucker used a kitchen knife or anything you can, reasonably, find in your house. Nah, he used a specific tool for the job, one that he literally couldn't acquire by himself without planning, you know, being on house arrest.
So, let's hope they throw the book at the idiots that were clearly helping plan his escape, because he obviously had help.
First ive heard of a soldering iron.
Deletelet's point our that there's about ZERO FUCKING REASON for someone like Bolsonaro to even own a soldering iron.
Delete"Idk, I have one too in my toolbox. It's a 20$ tool."
"Nah, he used a specific tool for the job, one that he literally couldn't acquire by himself without planning, you know, being on house arrest."
Could just order one from Amazon, as I did.
"Idk, I have one too in my toolbox. It's a 20$ tool."
DeleteHe's a rich, ex-president, who lives in a high luxury apartment complex.
So no, he doesn't own a soldering iron. For any reason (well, besides trying to use it to escape). Come on, now...
"Could just order one from Amazon, as I did."
Sure, it then shows planning and definitely not a spur of the moment thing like he tried to play as.
"He's a rich, ex-president, who lives in a high luxury apartment complex. So no, he doesn't own a soldering iron."
DeleteEven likelier then to have a garage full of tools, and perhaps the personnel to operate it.
"Sure, it then shows planning and definitely not a spur of the moment thing like he tried to play as."
Yeah, I'm not buying his story either. I'm just saying a soldering iron is a fairly common tool to have. Not as common as a hammer or pliers or a lawnmower, but close.
Cool story, still a crime.
ReplyDeleteThrow him in prison.
ReplyDeleteLiar. Put him in a hole full of rats.
ReplyDeleteNever trust a politician
ReplyDeleteBlaming the ankle monitor...pathetic.
ReplyDeleteNot a vaccine, or Tylenol, I hope…
ReplyDeleteRump would need the extra big ankle bracelet to fit around his cankles.
ReplyDeletehttps://i.makeagif.com/media/10-09-2014/sqV1UE.gif
ReplyDeleteUh huh
ReplyDeleteif I say this I get no job anywhere ever
ReplyDeleteWhat a loser.
ReplyDeleteDon’t worry, we’ll treat your drug problem in prison.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about, man? You see a news story online and think you know everything? Go study, come live in Brazil to find out what's really going on.
DeleteOh OK, so you going off the meds or getting locked up in jail? Let's ask your doctor.
ReplyDeleteEsses gringos só falam bosta
ReplyDeleteLet's pray for Brazil, pray for our world! The persecution of Christians is real.
ReplyDeletePersecution of a Christian? Did you read the news? It says he tried to cut off his electronic ankle monitor.
DeleteLi, inclusive moro no brasil e sei do que estou falando! isso vai muito além de tornozeleira eletronica gringo burro, é perseguição pessoal, e quando mencionei perseguição cristã é visivel para quem tem dircenimento, se você foi além e procurou que eu duvido muito, você verá que o filho dele Flavio Bolsonaro movimentou uma vigilia de oração a respeito da situação! novamente quem tem dircenimento vê que é uma batalha espiritual, mas dúvido que você saiba americano burrinho que vê uma notÃcia online e acha que já sabe tudo do brasil, big hugs!
DeleteReleased today, November 26th.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reddit.com/search/?q=Bolsonaro+AND+27-year&source=trending&cId=c629369f-e6f2-4027-864e-1549b9cfe6ef&iId=9e712267-d8e8-4db8-9c3c-db2e590ef285
In a closed regime? Open regime? Semi-open regime?
DeletePresident Trump needs to help Bolsonaro.
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