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

The ex-president was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than 27 years in prison, but he was staying under confinement pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.

This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a call for a public vigil that could enable a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a filing authorising the custody, the magistrate said intelligence from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.

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

The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your nation, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of the former president's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.

The court filing highlights that the US embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

International Reactions

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Trump, prompting him to implement a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.

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

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was convicted of heading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which included plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.

The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the army and air force commanders. His successor was inaugurated without incident on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many his backers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the capital, Brazil's capital.

The police took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The justices found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to step in, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

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

The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 presidential election.