{"id":5688,"date":"2025-07-18T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5688\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:38:08","slug":"brazil-authorities-raid-bolsonaros-home-require-him-to-wear-monitor-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5688\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil authorities raid Bolsonaro\u2019s home, require him to wear monitor | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities accuse Bolsonaro of working with US to impose Brazil sanctions, as Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs.<\/p>\n

Federal police have raided the home and headquarters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, with authorities ordering him to wear an ankle monitor amid concerns he may flee the country.<\/p>\n

Police in a statement on Friday said they had issued search warrants ordered by the country\u2019s Supreme Court, but did not name Bolsonaro, who governed Latin America\u2019s largest country from 2019 to 2022.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court later confirmed the raid, quoting the country\u2019s prosecutor general as saying there was a \u201cconcrete\u201d possibility of Bolsonaro fleeing the country amid his ongoing trial<\/a> over alleged efforts to overturn President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s election victory in January 2023.<\/p>\n

The court said that Bolsonaro had been ordered to wear an ankle bracelet, stop using social media and end contacts with any foreign officials. He was also barred from approaching foreign embassies or consulates in Brazil.<\/p>\n

The top court\u2019s statement also revealed that Brazilian police have accused Bolsonaro of working with his son, Eduardo, a Brazilian lawmaker who has been lobbying in Washington, DC, to influence the administration of US President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Brazil.<\/p>\n

The claim comes after Trump earlier this month threatened<\/a> Brazil with 50 percent tariffs on goods if Bolsonaro was not granted legal reprieve.<\/p>\n

\"Bolsonaro\"Brazil\u2019s former President Jair Bolsonaro gives a news conference outside the Senate in Brasilia, Brazil [Luis Nova\/The Associated Press]<\/p>\n

Responding to the latest actions, Bolsonaro\u2019s lawyers expressed \u201csurprise and indignation\u201d at what they called \u201csevere precautionary measures imposed against him\u201d. They added that Bolsonaro has so far complied with court orders.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media, Eduardo Bolsonaro alleged the legal actions were retaliation for a video his father posted on social media on Thursday, thanking Trump for his support.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters on Friday, the elder Bolsonaro denied that he was considering fleeing the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is supreme humiliation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump tariff threats<\/p>\n

In a Truth Social post last week, Trump claimed that Brazilian authorities have \u201cdone nothing but come after [Bolsonaro], day after day, night after night, month after month, year after year!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not guilty of anything, except having fought for THE PEOPLE,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

Brazilian Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, in a 517-page document released late on Monday, called for Bolsonaro to be convicted for his alleged crimes, which could see the former leader spend decades behind bars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evidence is clear: the defendant acted systematically, throughout his mandate and after his defeat at the polls, to incite insurrection and the destabilisation of the democratic rule of law,\u201d Gonet said in the filing.<\/p>\n

Trump himself faced four criminal indictments following his first term, including one related to his efforts to overturn his own 2020 election loss. He, like Bolsonaro, has repeatedly claimed he has been the victim of a political \u201cwitch hunt\u201d.<\/p>\n

The US pressure campaign comes as Trump continues to threaten sweeping reciprocal tariffs on dozens of trade partners, although the threat against Brazil has stood out for its particularly personal tone.<\/p>\n

Trump has maintained friendly ties with Bolsonaro, sometimes called the \u201cTrump of the Tropics\u201d, stretching back to the US president\u2019s first term from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n

\"Brazil\"Protesters wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, right, and former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate after Trump\u2019s announcement of 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian goods in Sao Paulo, Brazil [Andre Penner\/The Associated Press]<\/p>\n

Speaking on Thursday, Lula said<\/a> Trump\u2019s tariff threat lacked \u201clogic\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot have President Trump forgetting that he was elected to govern the US, not to be the emperor of the world,\u201d Lula said.<\/p>\n

He added that Bolsonaro was not \u201cbeing judged personally\u201d by the country\u2019s independent judiciary, but \u201cbeing judged by the acts he tried to organise a coup d\u2019etat\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities accuse Bolsonaro of working with US to impose Brazil sanctions, as Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs. Federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}