The former Brazilian president arrested after being considered a flight risk

Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.

The former head of state was convicted of plotting a armed takeover in last fall and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending appeals.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" emerged.

This involved seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a chance to flee".

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a document approving the custody, the magistrate said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his flight.

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

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or see it all from your phone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist American leader Donald Trump, causing him to enact a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.

The former president is being held in a national police facility in Brasilia and will have a custody hearing on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was convicted of heading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.

High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The scheme was prevented because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. His successor was inaugurated without issue on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.

The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The judges found that the protesters had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.