Bolsonaro says hallucinatory effects of meds made him tamper with ankle tag

Brazil’s erstwhile president, convicted of a foiled coup, is nether apprehension aft taking a soldering robust to the monitoring device.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has told a justice that “hallucinations” provoked by a alteration successful his medicine led him to tamper with his space tag portion nether location apprehension for an attempted coup.

In a custody proceeding connected Sunday pursuing his detention the erstwhile time implicit the incident, the far-right erstwhile person told a Supreme Court justice that helium experienced a medicine-induced “paranoia” that led him to instrumentality a soldering robust to the device.

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“[Bolsonaro] said helium had ‘hallucinations’ that determination was immoderate wiretap successful the ankle monitoring, truthful helium tried to uncover it,” said Assistant Judge Luciana Sorrentino successful a tribunal papers published soon aft the online proceeding with the erstwhile president.

Bolsonaro was nether location apprehension portion appealing his condemnation for a botched subject coup aft his 2022 predetermination loss, but had been taken into custody connected Saturday aft constabulary reports helium had attempted to interruption the ankle tag rendered him a imaginable formation risk.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the apprehension hours aft receiving accusation astatine 12:08am [03:08 GMT] connected Saturday that the tag had been violated.

Bolsonaro denied helium was trying to escape, telling Sorrentino that a premix of medicines prescribed by antithetic doctors had led to the episode. He said helium began taking 1 of them lone 4 days earlier his detention connected Saturday morning.

“The witnesser stated that, astir midnight, helium tampered with the ankle bracelet, past ‘came to his senses’ and stopped utilizing the soldering iron, astatine which constituent helium informed the officers successful complaint of his custody,” the tribunal papers said.

Sunday’s gathering was procedural successful nature, but provided an accidental for Bolsonaro’s lawyers to reason that the erstwhile president should stay nether location apprehension owed to mediocre health. De Moraes has antecedently rejected akin requests.

A sheet of Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled successful September that Bolsonaro tried to signifier a coup and support the presidency aft his decision by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva successful 2022, sentencing him to 27 years and 3 months successful prison.

On Monday, the aforesaid sheet volition ballot connected the pre-emptive apprehension order.

President Lula made his archetypal comments astir his predecessor’s jailing astatine a gathering of the Group of 20 (G20) bloc of nations successful South Africa. “The tribunal ruled, that’s decided. Everyone knows what helium did,” Lula told journalists.