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The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The former head of state was found guilty of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and given more than 27 years in jail, but he continued under confinement pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information emerged.

This involved seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the custody, the magistrate said intelligence from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his escape.

This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.

His son wrote on online platforms on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your settee? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, causing him to enact a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being held in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a custody hearing on the next day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plan which encompassed plans to assassinate his opponent and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.

The scheme was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the backing of the army and air force commanders. His successor was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on 8 January, numerous his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, the capital city.

The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.

The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.

He was also barred from running for public office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The one-time head of state called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.