Brasília (EFE).- The former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began serving his sentence on Tuesday for an attempted coup in a small 12-square-meter room at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília.
According to images released by the Federal Police, the room’s only furnishings are a single bed, a small table, a television, and wooden shelves. The walls are painted white and are empty.
The far-right leader had already been transferred to that room at the Federal Police headquarters on Saturday after attempting to damage an electronic ankle monitor that was part of the restrictions imposed on him for non-compliance with various precautionary measures in the context of the process.
On Tuesday, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur of the trial heard in the First Chamber of the Supreme Court, concluded the proceedings.
In that decision, he also ruled that the former president (2019-2022) should begin serving his sentence in the same room and that he should receive proper medical care.
Bolsonaro, 70, suffers from various health problems and attributed his intention to damage the electronic ankle monitor with a homemade welder to antidepressant medications that allegedly caused him to experience hallucinations.
The far-right leader attributes his poor health to the aftermath of a stabbing he endured during the 2018 election campaign, when a mentally ill individual stabbed him in the abdomen. He was elected president that year.
Four years later, in Oct. 2022, he ran for reelection but was defeated by the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. According to the Supreme Court, after his defeat, he conspired to prevent his successor’s inauguration and remain in power.EFE
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