Jair Bolsonaro arrested after being deemed a flight risk

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Source: BBC

Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after being determined a "concrete flight risk" while under house arrest.

The former Brazilian president was found guilty of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, but he remains under house arrest pending appeals.
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In a filing authorising the arrest, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former president's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his escape".

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his son".

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8qdm5zg10o

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Good - don't trust this family an inch.

Amid growing speculation that Bolsonaro would be imprisoned in the coming days, supporters had been planning to hold a “vigil” on Saturday night outside the luxury condominium where their leader has been living under house arrest.

The protest had been called by Bolsonaro’s senator son, Flávio Bolsonaro, in a social media video: “Are you going to fight for your country or are you going to watch everything on your mobile phone while sitting at home on your sofa?” He invited Bolsonaristas to “come and fight with us”.
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Adding to those suspicions, Moraes said Bolsonaro’s electronic ankle monitor had been tampered with at 12.08am on Saturday. That suggested “the convict had planned to break the ankle monitor in order to ensure the success of his escape, aided by the confusion caused by the protest called by his son”.

Moraes noted how Bolsonaro, who counts US president Donald Trump among his key international allies, lived about 15 minutes from the US embassy. In August, Bolsonaro was accused of seeking asylum in Argentina, where another right-wing ally, Javier Milei, holds power. In 2024, Bolsonaro mysteriously spent two nights inside the embassy of Hungary.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/far-right-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-arrested-in-brazil