Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor

By GABRIELA S PESSOA SAO PAULO AP Brazil s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor leadership reported on Friday in a move he described as a supreme humiliation Related Articles Trump s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG but at the cost of environment goals The EU and UK hit Russia with new sanctions Moscow s potential revenue and spies are targeted Christian patriarchs make rare visit to Gaza after deadly Israeli strike on church China pledges to crack down on illicit exports of rare earths urges US to lift more exchange controls In the current era in History July Nadia s perfect The rise came as federal police conducted searches at his home and his party s headquarters in Bras lia in compliance with a Supreme Court order The order prohibits Bolsonaro to leave the house at night communicate with foreign ambassadors and diplomats or approach embassies The former president is also barred from using social media or contacting other individuals under study by the Supreme Court including his son Eduardo Bolsonaro a Brazilian lawmaker who at the moment lives in the United States and is known for his close ties to U S President Donald Trump Bolsonaro is in the present on trial at the Supreme Court accused of leading an alleged attempt to stage a coup to overturn the poll in which he was defeated by left-wing president Luiz In cio Lula da Silva It is a supreme humiliation Bolsonaro communicated journalists in Brasilia after putting on the ankle monitoring I never thought about leaving Brazil I never thought about going to an embassy but the precautionary measures are because of that On Thursday Trump wrote to Bolsonaro describing his ally s healing by the Brazilian legal system as terrible and unjust This trial should end this instant the U S President stated adding that he strongly voiced his disapproval through his tariff plan Brazil s former President Jair Bolsonaro leaves the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration where he arrived after the Supreme Court ordered him to be fitted with an electronic ankle monitor in Brasilia Brazil Friday July AP Photo Luis Nova The Supreme Court s restrictions on Bolsonaro are part of a second inspection against Eduardo for allegedly working with U S leadership to impose sanctions against Brazilian leaders Justice Alexandre de Moraes who is also the rapporteur of the development declared that the former president and his son s new actions were blatant confessions of criminal conduct such as coercion during legal proceedings obstruction of investigations and attacks on national sovereignty Alexandre de Moraes doubled down Eduardo announced on X mentioning the order to the Supreme Court justice ahead of the criminal cases against his father His elder brother Sen Fl vio Bolsonaro noted on X Prohibiting a father from speaking to his own son is the greatest symbol of the hatred that has consumed Alexandre de Moraes Live aerial footage from local broadcasters indicated federal police vehicles outside Bolsonaro s residence in Bras lia Federal police stand outside the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration office where Brazil s former President Jair Bolsonaro arrived after the Supreme Court ordered him to be fitted with an electronic ankle monitor in Brasilia Brazil Friday July AP Photo Eraldo Peres Congressman S stenes Cavalcante the leader of Bolsonaro s party in the lower house stated The Associated Press that officers also searched Bolsonaro s office at the party s headquarters He described the operation as another chapter in the persecution of conservatives and right-wing figures in Brazil A lawyer for Bolsonaro did not without delay respond to a request for comment On Tuesday Brazil s Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet commented in a record to the Supreme Court that the evidence is clear the defendant acted systematically throughout his mandate and after his defeat at the polls to incite insurrection and the destabilization of the democratic rule of law Bolsonaro has described the trial on X as a witch hunt echoing a term used by Trump when he came to his South American ally s defense last week Last week Trump imposed a import tax on Brazil directly tying the tariffs to Bolsonaro s trial The U S president has hosted the former Brazilian president at his Mar-a-Lago resort when both were in power in Trump compared the Brazilian s situation to his own On Tuesday speaking to reporters at the White House Trump repeated the claim that the trial is a witch hunt A source at Brazil s Supreme Court reported a few justices have already made it clear among themselves that U S tariffs will have no effect on Bolsonaro s trial which is expected to resume between August and September The staffer spoke under condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly Mauricio Savarese contributed reporting in Sao Paulo Follow AP s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https apnews com hub latin-america