Radical Bolsonarist MP Daniel Silveira was arrested by the Brazilian Federal Police at his home in Petropolis, a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, this Thursday morning, a day after the mandate that guaranteed him immunity expired.
Silveira, who was sentenced last April to 8 years and 9 months in prison for actions against democracy, was pardoned from custody by then-president Jair Bolsonaro, but other measures against him, such as a ban on carrying weapons, using social networks and the obligation to wear electronic bracelet is still valid.
It was the failure to comply with some of these measures that prompted Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexander de Moraes to order the arrest of the former parliamentarian.
The court has police reports showing that Daniel Silveira ripped off the bracelet, left it at home for a sign indicating he was there, but jumped over the wall and went into the house next to his.
Silveira, a former police officer and martial arts instructor, was first arrested in 2021 after posting videos on social media in which he urged people to attack justice and Congress and threatened to kill Supreme Court judges who prevented Bolsonaro from setting up an authoritarian government. .
He received the right to house arrest, but with a ban on participation in political events, even remotely. Silveira repeatedly violated judicial restrictions, but the fact that he was a parliamentarian placed some restrictions on justice.
When the Federal Supreme Court finally convicted him, in a clear act of defiance, then-President Bolsonaro signed a presidential pardon pardoning his prison sentence.
Parliament refused to expel Silveira or annul his mandate, but justice did not give up, waiting for the expiration of the mandate of the extremist MP, which happened on this Wednesday, and arrested him this Thursday.
Despite being convicted by the court, which deprived him of the right to stop the election, Daniel Silveira ran for Senator from the state of Rio de Janeiro with the full support of Jair Bolsonaro and received more than one and a half million votes. But selective justice contested this candidacy precisely because, in its opinion, after the conviction, Silveira became ineligible and should not have run for office.