Defense says Bolsonaro needs surgery, requests house arrest again | Policy

Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for leading an attempted coup. The sentence is currently being served at the Federal Police Superintendence in Brasilia. Lawyers demanded that the former president remain in power DF Star Hospitalalso in Brasilia, “as long as necessary”.

According to the defense, in addition to the hiccups and the operation to treat the after-effects, the former president must deal with a worsening diagnosis. unilateral inguinal hernia. The lawyers attached medical reports to support their claims.

After the hospitalization period, the defense continues, Bolsonaro should be transferred to home care, in humanitarian character.

“In similar and much less serious cases, this Supreme Court has granted house arrest to convicted defendants, as it did, for example, in the case of former President Fernando Collor de Mello“, specifies an extract from the request.

Lawyers Celso Vilardi, Paulo Amador da Cunha Bueno and Daniel Bettamio Tesser signed the document.

Lawyers once again denied that Bolsonaro tried to escape Shame THE electronic ankle bracelet with a soldering iron. According to the defense, a mix medications would have caused a “confusion, disorientation“, in addition to “hallucinations“.

“Although there was a malfunction of the electronic device of the ankle bracelet due to the act of the petitioner, in the context of a drug-induced mental confusion duly recorded in the report, it is essential to emphasize that there was no breakage of the bracelet, as recognized by the judicial police responsible for the expertise and evidenced by the video attached to the report,” he declared.

“In this context, it is unequivocal that the execution of the sentence in a penitentiary establishment represents a clear, immediate and concrete risk for the life of the applicant, and it is impossible, from a medical and legal point of view, to require that he remain in an environment incapable of ensuring the continuous treatment, clinical monitoring and emergency intervention that his state of health requires,” the lawyers continue.

Regarding the request for surgery, the defense says the former president is suffering permanent consequences as a result of the attack he suffered in 2018, including intestinal problems and “significant functional limitations.”

“Added to this is the state of uncontrollable hiccups, described by treating doctors as a neurological effect secondary to surgical interventions, requiring daily adjustments of medications acting on the central nervous system. And the episode of mental confusion caused by the interaction of medications used to treat this condition shows, in itself, the seriousness and delicacy of the health condition described,” they conclude.