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

The ex-president was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and given more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.

This included attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a demonstration that could enable a possible escape.

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

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

His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on social media on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to struggle with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.

The legal document emphasizes that the US embassy in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Donald Trump, prompting him to implement a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.

He is being held in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also asked that the former president be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was convicted of heading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without problem on 1 January 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the capital, Brasília.

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

The justices found that the protesters had been incited by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.

At the time, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from campaigning for office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The one-time head of state called the trial a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 national vote.