Jair Bolsonaro obtains medical leave and returns to prison after eight days of hospitalization

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro He was again incarcerated this Thursday in the Federal Police cell where he is serving his 27-year prison sentence for coup plotting, after receiving a medical discharge after being subjected to four operations in eight days in which he was hospitalized.

The leader of the Brazilian far right left the DF Star Hospital of Brasilia at 6:43 p.m. local time (9:43 p.m. GMT) and was taken to the headquarters of the superintendence of Federal police from the Brazilian capital in a caravan of police vehicles accompanied by a large escort of motorcycles.

The former president has been serving his sentence since November in a special cell of the police institution, which he left on December 24 after the Supreme Court authorized his admission to hospital to undergo corrective surgery. two inguinal hernias.

His return to prison comes a few hours after the highest court rejected the new request for house arrest for humanitarian reasons presented by the lawyers of the army reserve captain.