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Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The former head of state was sentenced of planning a military coup in last fall and handed more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the move to detain the elderly politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.

This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Risks

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said information from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.

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

His child, Flávio, who serves as a legislator, 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: Will you battle for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."

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

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of the former president's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a statement said.

The legal document emphasizes that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

The former president's legal troubles have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist US President President Trump, prompting him to impose a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.

He is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also asked that he be allowed to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to kill his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing the former president's case.

The scheme was thwarted because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without incident on January 1st, 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his backers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.

The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to step in, reestablish control and return him to office.

At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.