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The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and handed more than a 27-year term in jail, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after recent developments came to light.

This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his flight.

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

His child, Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a gathering of his backers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or see it all from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the judge's decision was the possibility of the former president's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.

The legal document emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is located around 13km from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist United States President Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

The former president is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with digital surveillance.

They also asked that the former president be permitted to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plan which included plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The scheme was prevented because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. His successor was inaugurated without incident on January 1st, 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his backers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, Brasília.

The law enforcement took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to take action, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.