The six convicts began serving their sentences on Tuesday, when the rulings became final.

In addition to Bolsonaro, the former ministers of the Civil House Walter Braga Netto, of the Institutional Security Cabinet (ISC) Augusto Heleno, of Defense Paulo Sergio Nogueira, of Justice and Public Security Anderson Torres, and the former Navy commander Almir Garnier underwent the pretrial detention interviews.

The detention hearings are a standard procedure, whose objective is solely to assess whether abuses or irregularities occurred on the part of police authorities since the arrests; that is, they do not analyze matters of merit.

In issuing the arrest warrants, Minister Alexandre de Moraes stipulated that the arrests should be carried out “with due respect for the dignity of the convicted person, without the use of handcuffs and without any media exposure.”

He added that it remains at the discretion of the police authority whether or not to use the uniform and weapons necessary for the execution of the warrant.

Identified by the Attorney General’s Office as members of the so-called crucial core of the criminal organization, the six were convicted of coup d’état, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, armed criminal organization, aggravated damage with serious threat or violence to state property, and damage to historical heritage.

Detained preventively since Saturday, when he violated his electronic ankle monitor, Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year and three-month prison sentence at the Federal Police headquarters in the capital.

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