On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday that he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before while on house arrest.
On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday that he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before while on house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication, the AP reports. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the 70-year-old’s preemptive jailing Saturday, deciding he’s a flight risk. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for attempting a coup to keep him in the presidency after his 2022 electoral defeat by now-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
