Brazil’s Bolsonaro arrested days before start of 27-year prison sentence

The erstwhile president is taken successful the superior Brasilia days earlier starting his situation clip for starring coup attempt.

Brazil’s national constabulary person arrested erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro, days earlier helium was acceptable to statesman his 27-year situation sentence for starring a coup attempt, according to his lawyer and a adjacent aide.

Bolsonaro, who has been nether location apprehension since August, was transferred to detention connected Saturday, his lawyer said.

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“He has been imprisoned, but I don’t cognize why,” Celso Vilardi, 1 of his lawyers, told the AFP quality agency.

A adjacent adjutant told The Associated Press quality bureau that the embattled erstwhile person was taken to the constabulary office successful the capital, Brasilia.

Bolsonaro’s adjutant Andriely Cirino confirmed to AP that the apprehension took spot astatine astir 6am (03:00 GMT) connected Saturday.

The unit said successful a abbreviated statement, which did not sanction Bolsonaro, that it acted connected the petition of Brazil’s Supreme Court.

Neither Brazil’s national constabulary nor the Supreme Court provided much details astatine the clip of publication.

Sentenced for coup attempt

The 70-year-old erstwhile president was taken from his location successful a gated assemblage successful the upscale Jardim Botanico neighbourhood to the national constabulary headquarters, Cirino said.

Local media reported that Bolsonaro, who was Brazil’s president from 2019 to 2022, was expected to statesman serving his condemnation sometime adjacent week aft the far-right person exhausted each appeals of his condemnation for starring a coup attempt.

The 70-year-old Bolsonaro’s ineligible squad had antecedently argued that helium should service his 27-year condemnation for a botched coup bid successful 2022 astatine home, arguing imprisonment would airs a hazard to his health.

Bolsonaro was convicted successful September implicit his bid to forestall President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking powerfulness pursuing the 2022 election, which helium lost.

The effort saw crowds of rioters tempest authorities buildings a week aft Lula’s inauguration, evoking comparisons with the January 6 riot astatine the United States Capitol aft his adjacent ally, President Donald Trump, mislaid the 2020 predetermination to Joe Biden.

Trump has branded the prosecution of his far-right state a “witch-hunt” and made it a major issue successful US relations with Brazil, imposing stiff tariffs connected the state arsenic a signifier of retribution.

Trump and Lula held what Brazil described arsenic a constructive gathering connected the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) acme successful Kuala Lumpur past month, raising anticipation for improved relations aft stinging US tariffs.

Lula said the gathering with Trump was “great” and added that their countries’ negotiating teams would get to enactment “immediately” to tackle tariffs and different issues.