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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was convicted of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information came to light.

This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.

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

His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on social media on the previous day: 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 demonstration would be so followers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the potential of his "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from his dwelling.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President Donald Trump, leading him to implement a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will have a detention review on Sunday.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with digital surveillance.

They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was convicted of heading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he knew of a scheme which involved plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The plot was prevented because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without problem on January 1st, 2023.

But a week later, on 8 January, numerous his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the national capital, Brasília.

The security forces took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The judges found that the protesters had been incited by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.

At the period, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 presidential election.