The Brazil Supreme Court on Monday has ordered the arrest of former President Jeir Bolsonaro’s home, who is suggested for a supposedly mastery of a coup plot to remain in office, despite his defeat in the 2022 election – a case that covered the country in South America as it is facing a trade war.
Justice Alexander de Moraes, who controls the case against Bolsonaro before the top court, said in his decision that by distributing content online through the three sons of the legislator, the 70-year-old has violated the precautions that his courts have imposed on him.
Bolsonaro’s lawyers said in a statement that he would appeal the decision. They said his words, “Good afternoon, Copacabana, Good afternoon, my Brazil, a hug of everyone, it’s about our freedom” – broadcasting in an account on social media, using a mobile phone belonging to one of his sons during a Sunday protest in Rio de Janeiro – cannot be considered as a crime.
Bolsonaro’s trial received renewed attention after US President Donald Trump directly tied a 50 -percent tariff for imported Brazilian goods for his Union’s judicial situation. Trump called the Witches Hunting, causing nationalist reactions from leaders to all branches of power in Brazil, including President Luis Inasio Lula da Silva.
Brazil prosecutors have accused Bolsonaro of leadership of a criminal organization that intended to cancel the election, including plans to kill both Lula and justice de Moraes after the ultimate right leader lost his candidacy for re -election in 2022.
The order on Monday was followed by one of the highest court last month, which required Bolsonaro to carry an electronic ankle monitor and imposed a police officer on his activities while the production was underway.
US President Donald Trump has threatened a 50 percent tariff for all goods imported from Brazil, a country with which the United States has been a trade surplus for decades. Andrew Chang breaks down why Trump can separate Brazil, including his relationship with former President Jeir Bolsonaro. Images provided by Getty Images, the Canadian press and Reuters.
Following the news of a home arrest warrant, an employee of the Brazil Federal Police told the Associated Press that federal agents had seized mobile phones at the Bolsonaro residence in the capital of Brazil, as ordered by De Moraes in his decision. The employee spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk about the issue publicly.
Bolsonaro is expected to stay in Brazil for his house arrest as he is not allowed to travel. He also has a house in Rio de Janeiro, where he has held his election base as a legislator for three decades.
The former captain of the army is the fourth former president of Brazil, who will be arrested from the end of the country’s military government from 1964 to 1985, which Bolsonaro supports.
The relocation from Brazilian justice comes a day after tens of thousands of Bolsonaro supporters took to the streets in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio, the prayers of Brazil’s Congress to pardon him and hundreds of others who were brought before a court or closed to their roles in the destruction of government buildings. 2023.
On Sunday, Bolsonaro turned to Rio supporters through a phone belonging to one of his sons, which De Moraes describes as illegal.
“The unsuccessful disrespect for precautionary measures was so obvious that the defendant’s son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, decided to remove the publication in his Instagram account in order to hide the legitimate transgression,” De Moraes writes.
“Justice is the same for everyone,” Judge says
The former Brazilian president’s lawyers did not comment after the decision. Flavio Bolsonaro claims to X that Brazil is “officially in dictatorship” after the arrest of his father’s home.
“The pursuit of De Moraes against Bolsonaro has no restrictions!” The senator wrote.
De Moraes added in his decision that Jair Bolsonaro, who ruled Brazil between 2019 and 2022, had spread reports with “clear content of promoting and inciting attacks on the Supreme Court and screaming support for foreign intervention in the Brazilian judicial system” – probably a veiled reference to Trump’s support.
De Moraes also said that Bolsonaro “turned to the protesters gathered in Copacabana, in Rio” on Sunday, so that his supporters could “try to force the Supreme Court.”
Last week, the US Department of Finance announced sanctions on de Moraes because of the alleged suppression of freedom of expression and the ongoing process of Bolsonaro.
“Justice will not allow the defendant to make a fool of it,” de Moraes said in his decision. “Justice is the same for all. The defendant, who willingly ignores precautions – for the second time – must have legal consequences.”
Next year’s election “look like a disturbance”
Creomar de Souza, a political analyst for Dharma’s political risk and strategy, a political consulting firm based in Brazil, says Bolsonaro’s home arrest is opening a new moment to counter the country, which can raise steam in the fight against the offer to re -elevate the Loula next year.
Now, De Susa said, “The 2026 elections seem like a disturbance,” and the political debate in Brazil is likely to be divided between two key struggles.
“One is the efforts of Bolsonaro’s supporters to continue strong on the right, whether it insists on amnesty in the congress or is placed physically there,” he said. “The second is how the Lula administration will try to show that the country has a government.”
“This is just the beginning,” he concluded.
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2025-08-04 22:28:34