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The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro explained this Sunday, in a detention control hearing, that, due to the intake of certain medicationsentered a state of “paranoia” and “hallucinations” which led him to burn his electronic anklet with a soldering iron because he believed there was a listening system.
The far-right leader submitted to the questions from an assistant judge about the conditions of his arrest, after spending the night in preventive detention at the headquarters of the Federal Policein Brasilia.
The detention control session is a crucial procedure to verify the physical integrity of the detainee and check if your rights were violated fundamental.
The assistant judge of the Supreme Court magistrate Alexandre de Moraesrapporteur of the process by which Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for coup plotting, led the session and confirmed the absence of “abuses or irregularities”according to the official report.
The leader of the Liberal Party (PL), who had been under house arrest since last August 4 at his residence in Brasilia, was preventively arrested on Saturday morning, for “specific risk of flight” and “threat to public order.”
One of the reasons for the prison order was the fact that the former head of state (2019-2022) confessed to having burned the electronic anklet with a soldering iron imposed by the high court to control their movements.
At this Sunday’s hearing, the retired Army captain declared that he entered a state of “certain paranoia” between Friday and Saturday, as a result of taking medications prescribed by different doctors, which caused adverse reactions.
The two drugs mentioned are pregabalin (antiepileptic) and sertraline (antidepressant).
Bolsonaro, 70, also alleged that he does not sleep well and that he was “delusional” because he believed that Inside the anklet there was a listening system.
He reported that He began manipulating the device on Friday afternoon until midnight on Saturday, when the device sent an alert to the Brazilian authorities, who immediately came to verify what happened.
The former president He also denied that he was trying to remove the anklet to escape.as the investigating judge maintains.
After going through the control hearing, the ultra leader will receive a visit from his wife this Sunday, Michelle Bolsonaro.
His arrest occurred on the eve of the Supreme Court ordering the execution of the 27-year prison sentence he received for “leading” a coup plot to “perpetuate himself in power”, after losing the 2022 elections against the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.