Bolsonaro, in pretrial detention after being arrested at his home

BarcelonaA group of Brazilian Federal Police officers went to the home of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was under house arrest, on Saturday and arrested him preventively, according to local media. The far-right leader had been convicted for the attempted coup of January 2023Just yesterday, Friday, Bolsonaro's lawyers requested the Supreme Court to allow their client to serve his 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup under house arrest due to health reasons. However, officers transferred Bolsonaro to police custody, following orders from the Brazilian Supreme Court, which decreed the former president's preventive detention to "guarantee public order," according to EFE. His son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, had called for a large rally of Bolsonaro supporters this Saturday in front of the former president's home. A very brief statement from the Brazilian Federal Police reported that they had carried out, this Saturday in Brasília, "a preventive detention order in accordance with a decision of the Supreme Court," without mentioning the person arrested. According to local media, Saturday's preventive detention does not mark the beginning of the sentence's execution, which was expected in the coming weeks after the Supreme Court rejected the first appeals against the verdict. Instead, it appears to be a preventive detention order. On September 11, Bolsonaro was convicted by the Supreme Court's First Chamber. to try to "perpetuate" himself in power with the support of former ministers and military commandersAfter losing the 2022 elections to the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the country's current president, the seventy-year-old far-right leader had been under house arrest at his residence in Brasília since August 4 for violating a series of precautionary measures in this case. In the coup trial, the Supreme Court also ordered the preventive detention on Friday of Congressman Alexandre Ramagem, a Bolsonaro ally who was convicted in the same trial as the former president. Ramagem reportedly fled to the United States last September through the state of Roraima, bordering Venezuela, and then through French Guiana. Ramagem, the former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, received a sixteen-year prison sentence in a closed regime for the crimes of criminal organization, coup d'état, and the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law.