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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The ex-president was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in last fall and given more than 27 years in prison, but he was staying under house arrest pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.

This encompassed seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Court Filing Details Escape Risks

In a document approving the custody, the magistrate said intelligence from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the protest called by his son.

His child, Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to fight with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The legal document underscores that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Donald Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a detention review on the next day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also asked that he be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he knew of a plan which involved plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was prevented because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without issue on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on 8 January, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, the capital city.

The police intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.

The judges found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, reestablish control and return him to office.

At the time, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from campaigning for office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

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