Moraes also decided that Bolsonaro can no longer use online media and no longer “come into contact with foreign ambassadors and authorities”. On the grounds, the judge announced that Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo were suspected of inciting “enemy files” against Brazil. The measures are therefore necessary.
According to the Brazilian media reports, the measures against Bolsonaro aim to prevent the 70-year-old from escaping. The right-wing ex-state leader assured that he never intended: “I never thought of leaving Brazil, I never thought about going to a message.” Bolsonaro described the ankle mandatory as “greatest humiliation”, he also called the measures imposed against him.
Eduardo Bolsonaro said in online service X that the police searched his father’s house in the morning. The son of the ex-president, who lives in the United States, also accused Moraes in a letter to be a “political gangster” in a judge robe who abuse the Supreme Court “as his personal weapon”.
Moraes is considered an arch enemy Bolsonaros. The ex-president’s lawyers had tried to have him dropped him off as a judge. They argued that Moraes was biased in the case because, according to the indictment, he should have been murdered in connection with the alleged attempted coup.
Bolsonaro and seven co -accused were convinced of the indictment to Bolsonaro’s election defeat in 2022 to carry out a coup against his left -wing successor Lula. You must therefore answer in front of the Supreme Court in Brasília. In the event of a guilty verdict, they face up to 40 years in prison.
On Tuesday, the Brazilian public prosecutor had requested that Bolsonaro and the other defendants be guilty of founding an “armed criminal association”. They tried to “violently overthrow the democratic order”.
In the process, only the final phrases of the defense are still pending. The judgment of the five -member committee is then expected to belong to Moraes.
Bolsonaro rejects the allegations made against him. The right -wing radical politician, who was president from 2019 to 2023, describes himself as a victim of political persecution. The public prosecutor countered this that Bolsonaro’s attempted coup only failed because the military had not put itself on its side.
Bolsonaro receives support from Trump. The latter demands that the trial against Bolsonaro to stop and speaks of a “witch hunt” – so Trump had always described ongoing investigations and processes against him. Last week, Trump announced that it would take a customs rate of 50 percent because of the Brazilian judiciary’s procedure against Bolsonaro from August Brazil.
According to the ankle meeting for Bolsonaro, Trump’s Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said Washington would withdraw Moraes his US visa. The “political witch hunt” of the judge against Bolsonaro “led to persecution and censorship, which not only violates Brazilians’ fundamental rights, but also spreads beyond the Brazilian coasts to America,” explained Rubio.
According to the US chief diplomat, the visa restrictions also apply to other judges who work with Moraes, as well as to their closest family members.
Brazil’s President Lula sharply criticized the measure. “The interference of a country in the judicial system of another country is unacceptable,” he wrote in online service X. The sanctions imposed by the USA against the judges are “arbitrary and completely unfounded”.
Bolsonaro lost the presidential election against Lula in October 2022. Shortly after he took office in January 2023, Bolsonaro supporters stormed the congress in the capital of Brasília, the official residence of the President and the Senior Court and set up severe devastation there. The incidents reminded of the storm of Trump supporters on the Capitol in Washington in January 2021 after his election defeat against Joe Biden.
