The Supreme Court of Brazil orders house arrest for former President Bolsonar

Sao PAULO – The Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the arrest of the house for former President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday, rightly due to alleged mastering of a coup to remain in office despite his defeat in the 2022 elections – a case that the South – American country has taken care of a trade war with the Trump -Administratie.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who supervises the case against Bolsonaro for the Top Court, said in his decision that the 70-year-old former President Voorzorgeels had violated him that was imposed on him by distributing content through his three legislative sons.

Bolsonaro’s lawyers said in a statement that he appeals against the decision. They said his words: “Good afternoon, copacabana, good afternoon my Brazil, a hug for everyone, this is for our freedom” – broadcast from a mobile phone from one of his sons during a Sunday protest in Rio de Janeiro – cannot be considered to ignore precautions or as a criminal act. “

The trial against the extreme right -wing leader receives renewed attention after the US President Donald Trump immediately bound a rate of 50% on imported Brazilian goods to the judicial situation of his ally. Trump has called the Proceedings a ‘witch hunt’, which causes nationalist reactions from leaders of all power branches in Brazil, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Hours after the decision, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the US Department of Foreign Affairs said on X on X that the Trump governance “condemns the order of Moraes (de) Moraes that the house arrest will hold on to Bolsonaro and will hold all that helped and sent behavior liable.”

“It is not a public service to set even more restrictions on Jair Bolsonaro’s assets to defend himself in public. Let Bolsonaro speak!” Said the US Department of Foreign Affairs.

The government of Brazil has not commented on the case.

The case against Bolsonaro

The prosecutors of Brazil accuse Bolsonaro of leading a criminal organization that explained the elections, including plans to kill Lula and Justice de Moraes after the extreme right-wing leader lost his re-election in 2022 somewhat.

Last month’s order followed one of the Tophof that Bolsonaro ordered to wear an electronic single monitor and to impose an evening clock on his activities while the procedure is going on.

After the news about the arrest warrant, an employee of the Federal Police of Brazil told the Associated Press that federal agents had seized mobile phones in the home of Bolsonaro in the capital of Brasilia, as ordered by the Moraes in his decision. The employee spoke on condition of anonymity because of their lack of authorization to publicly talk about the issue.

Bolsonaro is expected to stay in Brasilia for his house arrest because he is not allowed to travel. He also has a house in Rio de Janeiro, where he held his election basis for three decades as a legislator. The former army captain is the fourth former president of Brazil who is arrested since the end of the military rule of the land from 1964 to 1985, who supported Bolsonaro.

‘Flagrant lack of respect’

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On Sunday, Bolsonaro addressed supporters in Rio via the phone of one of his sons, which the Moraes described as illegal.

“The blatant lack of respect for the precautions was so clear that the son of the suspect, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, decided to remove the placement in his Instagram profile, with the aim of hiding the legal violation,” De Moraes wrote.

Flávio Bolsonaro claimed on X that Brazil “officially has in a dictatorship” after the arrest of his father. “The persecution of the Moraes against Bolsonaro has no limits!” The senator wrote.

De Moraes added to his statement that Jair Bolsonaro, who ruled Brazil between 2019 and 2022, distributed messages with “a clear content of encouragement and instructions for attacks against the Supreme Court and a flagrant support for foreign intervention in the Brazilian judiciary” – probably a givered reference for trump.

The Moraes also said that Bolsonaro “the demonstrators on Sunday in Copacabana, in Rio”, spoke, so that his supporters “could force the Supreme Court”.

Last week, the US Department of Finance announced Sanctions to the Moraes due to alleged oppression of freedom of expression with regard to the Bolsonaro process. On Monday, the Bureau of Western Hemisme Affairs mentioned Brazilian justice “a human rights sanctioned by the US” and accused him of the use of “institutions to silence opposition and threaten democracy”.

De Moraes said in his decision that “(Brazil’s) judiciary does not allow a defendant to fool one.”

“Justice is the same for everyone. A defendant who willingly ignore precautions – for the second time – must have legal consequences,” he said.

Possible problems for the bow

Creomar de Souza, a political analyst of the political risk and strategy of Dharma, a political consultancy established in Brasilia, said that Bolsonaro’s house arrest will open a new moment for the opposition of the country, which will be able to steam in fighting against Lula’s re -election next year.

Now the Souza said: “The 2026 elections looks like unrest” and the political debate in Brazil will probably be divided between two important struggles.

“One is the effort of Bolsonaro supporters to stay strong on the right, regardless of whether it insists on amnesty in the congress or physically brings itself out of it,” the analyst said. “The second is how the Lula government will try to show that the country has a government.”

“This is just the beginning,” he concluded.

The newest decision of the Tophof keeps Bolsonaro under single monitoring, only enables family members and lawyers to visit him and grabs all the mobile phones from his house.

Between 2018 and 2019, Lula was imprisoned for 580 days in a corruption finding that was later thrown away by the Supreme Court, with reference to the bias of the judge in the case.

Michel Temer, who became president after Dilma Rousseff was accused in 2016, was arrested in 2019 for 10 days in connection with a transplant investigation, which later ended without a conviction.

Earlier this year, the Moraes ordered the detention of President Fernando Collor, who was in function from 1990 to 1992 until he was accused. The 75-year-old former president was convicted of money laundering and corruption in 2023 and now serves his prison sentence of more than eight years.

Hours after the order, right -wing legislators criticized the decision of the Moraes and compared the situation of Bolsonaro with that of his predecessors.

“House arrest for Jair Bolsonaro by the Moraes. Reason: corruption?” Early legislator Nikolas Ferreira. “No. His children have placed his content on social media. Pathetic.”

The extreme right -wing leader is already excluded from next year’s elections due to an abuse of the decision of power by the highest Kieshof in the country.

The left -wing legislator Duda Salabert said that Bolsonaro’s arrest increases the democracy of Brazil.

“And those who attacked it will pay,” Salabert said.