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The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a government overthrow in September and given more than a 27-year term in jail, but he was staying under home detention pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after recent developments came to light.

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 document approving the custody, the judge said data from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.

This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.

His child, Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a gathering of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.

His son wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's transfer to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to request asylum through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

Global Responses

The former president's legal troubles have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President Donald Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

He is being detained in a national police facility in Brasilia and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be authorized to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.

The plot was prevented because it didn't receive the backing of the military leaders. Lula was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, the capital city.

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

The judges found that the protesters had been provoked by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, reestablish control and return him to office.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".

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

The ex-leader called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him competing in the next presidential race.