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

The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" were revealed.

This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a possible escape.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.

This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his son.

His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a gathering of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on social media on last Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of the judge's decision was the chance of his move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a record of arranging to request asylum through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The court filing underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from his dwelling.

International Reactions

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

Bolsonaro is being held in a Federal Police station in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that he be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for lung conditions and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was convicted of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plan which included plans to kill the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. The current president was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023.

But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, the capital city.

The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.

The magistrates found that the protesters had been provoked by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, restore order and reinstate his authority.

At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years after the completion of his term.

The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 national vote.