Brazilian ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody over fears he was going to abscond
Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he tried to damage his electronic ankle monitor “out of curiosity” after he was arrested at his villa owing to suspicions he was poised to abscond.
In a video released by the supreme court, Bolsonaro – who was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison for masterminding a military coup – can be heard admitting to a security official that he had used a soldering iron to tamper with the black tag.
The video showed the device badly damaged and burned on both sides, but still attached to his ankle.
yeah. Does anyone actually believe that?
He stabbed it with a soldering iron in an attempt to get to the hardware. Dude’s a dumbass.
I don’t believe him but the thing is if I was locked up at home with a technological device strapped to my ankle I’d 100% fiddle with it out of curiosity so I gotta say he kinda picked a reasonable excuse.
he walked back on what he said and now hist current version is that he allucinated voices coming from the device, supposedly because of some medicines he’s been taking