Brazil prosecutors arrests Bolsonaro supporter after threats

  leader of a group that backs Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was detained Monday, accused of raising funds for actions that could threaten country's national security. Prosecutors didn't immediately give details about allegations against Sara Fernanda Giromini, better kwn as Sara Winter, though she has publicly threatened to punch a Supreme Court justice on several occasions. arrest warrant authorizes authorities to hold her for five days while she is investigated.

Giromini, a 27-year-old former feminist turned anti-abortion campaigner, leads a group, “Brazil's 300,” that has std demonstrations vociferously defending Bolsonaro's conservative policies and deuncing Supreme Court and Congress for blocking m.

A post on her Twitter account Monday said arrest means, “It is official: to support Jair Bolsonaro is a crime.”

“Sara Winter was arrested because of an investigation on financing of anti democratic protests," it added. "That’s right, demonstrations in which seniors, children, handicapped, women came to support of President Bolsonaro.”

On May 30 Giromini led a few dozen people on a torchlit march to Supreme Court to protest an investigation into allegations of a conspiracy to spread defamatory and threatening social media posts about justices. Giromini was among people named in probe.

On Saturday members of her group set off fireworks in direction of court building.