Brazilian Police Order Bolsonaro to Wear Ankle Bracelet After Searching His Home

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The former Brazilian president is on trial at the Supreme Court, accused of attempting to stage a coup.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor on Friday after federal police searched his home and his partyโ€™s headquarters in Brasilia under a Supreme Court order, according to authorities.

Lawmakers from Bolsonaroโ€™s Liberal Party said he was also ordered to stop using social media and cease communications with diplomats.

A police statement, which did not name Bolsonaro as the target of the raids, said officers carried out โ€œtwo search and seizure warrants, in addition to precautionary measures other than arrest, in compliance with a decision by the Supreme Court.โ€

Congressman Sostenes Cavalcante, the leader of the party in Brazilโ€™s lower house, said it was โ€œanother chapter in the persecution of conservatives and right-wing figuresโ€ in the country.

Bolsonaro, 70, is on trial at the Supreme Court, accused of attempting to stage a coup to overturn the 2022 election, which he lost to veteran progressive Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on July 7: โ€œBrazil is doing a terrible thing on their treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro. … I’ll be watching the WITCH HUNT of Jair Bolsonaro, his family, and thousands of his supporters, very closely.โ€

Two days later, Trump threatened to impose a 50 percent import tax on Brazil.

On Thursday, Lula, speaking to a crowd of students in the state of Goias, said he wonโ€™t take orders from a foreigner.

Bolsonaro posted a video on Thursday, before his social media ban, thanking Trump for his support, which he said brought him โ€œgreat joy.โ€

โ€˜Nonexistent Crimeโ€™

In the video, Bolsonaro said he was being prosecuted for a nonexistent crime and said the authorities in Brazil wanted to detach him from the political process.

On July 15, Brazilian Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet said in a report to the Supreme Court that the โ€œevidence 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.โ€

By Chris Summers

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