Brazilian Supreme Court orders the preventive detention of Filipe Martins for violating precautionary measures.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered, this Friday (2), the preventive detention of Filipe Garcia Martins Pereira due to non-compliance with the precautionary measures imposed within the scope of AP (Criminal Action) 2693, the so-called trial of the coup plot. The Federal Police confirmed that the court order was complied with. Martins remains detained in Ponta Grossa (Campos Gerais).

On December 26, 2025, he had obtained the substitution of pretrial detention for house arrest, conditioned on compliance with several restrictions, including a prohibition on the direct or indirect use of social media. However, information was added to the case file indicating that the convicted individual had used a digital platform, which led to the defense being summoned to provide clarifications.

The minister highlighted that the disregard for the imposed conditions demonstrates contempt for judicial decisions and the legal system, emphasizing that the possibility of converting house arrest into pre-trial detention had been expressly foreseen in case of violation of the precautionary measures.

Therefore, based on article 21 of the Internal Regulations of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) and article 312, § 1, of the Code of Criminal Procedure, preventive detention was decreed, with a warrant issued to the Federal Police.

Core 2

Filipe Martins, former international advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, was a defendant in the trial of the so-called "core 2" of the coup plot investigated by the PGR (Attorney General's Office). According to the indictment, this core group was responsible for operationalizing the attempted coup d'état and also included Fernando de Sousa Oliveira, a Federal Police delegate; Marcelo Costa Câmara, a retired Army colonel and former advisor to the Presidency; Marília Ferreira de Alencar, a Federal Police delegate and former Director of Intelligence at the Ministry of Justice; Mário Fernandes, a retired Army general; and Silvinei Vasques, former Director-General of the Federal Highway Police.

According to the Attorney General's Office (PGR), the group members allegedly offered legal, operational, and intelligence support to the coup plot, including drafting the so-called "coup draft," a document that called for the declaration of a state of emergency in the country. Specifically regarding Filipe Martins, the prosecution maintains that he drafted one version of the draft, a claim denied by his defense.

Group 2 was the last to be judged. The trial began on the 9th and concluded on December 16th, when the First Panel unanimously decided to convict five of the six defendants for all the crimes described in the indictment: attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup d'état, participation in an armed criminal organization, aggravated damage, and deterioration of listed heritage.

Only Fernando de Sousa Oliveira was acquitted, due to insufficient ev