US EditionBrazil’s former President Bolsonaro arrested days before starting his 27-year prison sentence
- Brazil's federal police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, just before he was to start his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, officials said.
- Bolsonaro was taken to the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília at around 6 a.m., confirmed by his aide Andriely Cirino.
- Local media reported that Bolsonaro would begin serving his sentence next week after exhausting all appeals.
- Bolsonaro had been under house arrest since early August prior to his conviction for the attempted coup.
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Brazil's ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro, seems to have "increased the risk of escape, which is why the ill-healthed ex-politician was arrested from house arrest. It is not about the execution of the penalty imposed by the Supreme Court for attempted coup d'état, but about a measure to "guarantee public order", reported among other things the news portal "G1". There was "increased risk of escape", because Bolsonaro – again! – is said to have violat…
Brasilia. Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was arrested on Saturday and sent to pretrial detention on the order of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) judge Alexandre de Moraes, due to a “specific risk of escape” detected in the early morning. The decision aggravates the judicial situation of the ex-mandator, who served house arrest since August while appealing a 27-year prison sentence for conspiring to prevent the assumption of President …
Former President Bolsonaro, who had been in prison at home since August, was transferred to prison in a preventive manner due to the risk of escape.
Four of the five judges voted to find the former president guilty of five counts: participation in an armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of democracy, organization...
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