On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before while under house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the 70-year-old former leader's pre-emptive jailing on Saturday because he's considered a flight risk. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for attempting a coup to remain in the presidency after his 2022 electoral defeat.

"[Bolsonaro] said he had 'hallucinations' that there was some wiretap in the ankle monitoring, so he tried to uncover it," assistant judge Luciana Sorrentino said, as reported in a Supreme Court document published on Sunday, shortly after her

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