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Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The ex-president was convicted of plotting a military coup in last fall and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending appeals.

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

This involved attempting to break his ankle monitor and a call for a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his getaway".

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.

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

His son wrote on online platforms on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could offer prayers for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is situated around 8 miles from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

The former president's legal troubles have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist American leader Donald Trump, leading him to enact a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being held in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will experience a detention review on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

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

They also asked that the former president be authorized to leave his home for healthcare, saying he required frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other ailments.

Context of Sentencing

The former president was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which included plans to kill his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was stopped because it failed to get the support of the military leaders. The current president was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, many his followers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the capital, the capital city.

The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The justices found that the protesters had been incited by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, restore order and reinstate his authority.

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him competing in the 2026 national vote.