Bolsonaro says hallucinatory effects of meds made him tamper with ankle tag

Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, claimed that while he was under house arrest for an attempted coup, he was “hallucinated” by a change in his medication.

The far-right former leader claimed that he had a “paranoia” in a soldering iron during a custody hearing on Sunday following his detention the day before the incident and that he had been detained the day before.

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Bolsonaro tried to find out what had happened in a wiretap in the ankle monitoring, according to Assistant Judge Luciana Sorrentino in a court filing that was made public shortly after the former president’s online interview. Bolsonaro claimed in a court document that he had “hallucinations” that he had “hallucinated” this.

Bolsonaro was under house arrest on suspicion of breaking the law, but he was taken into custody on Saturday after police claimed he had attempted to break the ankle tag, making him a potential flight risk. Bolsonaro is currently appealing his conviction for a botched military coup.

After receiving information at 12:08 am Saturday, at 03:08 GMT, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes determined that the tag had been violated.

Bolsonaro&nbsp, who denied trying to escape, claimed the episode was caused by a combination of medications that were prescribed by various doctors. He claimed that only four days before his detention on Saturday morning, he began taking one of them.

According to the court record, the witness claimed that he altered the ankle bracelet around midnight before “coming to terms with it” and stopped using the soldering iron, telling the officers in charge of his custody.

The attorneys for Bolsonaro claimed that the former president should remain under house arrest because of his poor health at the meeting on Sunday. Similar requests have previously been turned down by De Moraes.

After being defeated by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022, a panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in September that Bolsonaro attempted to hold onto the presidency and win back favor, and sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison.

The pre-emptive arrest order will be decided on Monday by the same panel.