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

The former head of state was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in last fall and given more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.

Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" were revealed.

This included trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".

Judicial Records Show Escape Risks

In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his getaway".

This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the gathering would be so backers could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's transfer to foreign missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The court filing underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

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

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

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

Context of Sentencing

The former president was found guilty of leading a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Lula.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plan which included plans to assassinate the current president and his running partner, Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was prevented because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. The current president was took office without problem on 1 January 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the capital, Brasília.

The security forces intervened and around 1,500 people were arrested.

The justices found that the protesters had been provoked by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, reestablish control and return him to office.

At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.