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

The one-time leader was convicted of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending appeals.

High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.

This included trying to remove his tracking device and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the magistrate said intelligence from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's "intention to break the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his son.

His child, Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Will you battle for your country, or observe everything from your phone there on your sofa? I call on you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of the former president's move to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The legal document underscores that the US embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist US President Donald Trump, leading him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being detained in a national police facility in Brasilia and will undergo a custody hearing on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Top Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he required ongoing care for lung conditions and other illnesses.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was found guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

High Court judges said that he was aware of a plan which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The plot was prevented because it didn't receive the backing of the military leaders. His successor was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on 8 January, numerous his followers attacked and damaged official structures in the national capital, the capital city.

The law enforcement intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.

The judges found that the rioters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, reestablish control and return him to office.

At the moment, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

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

The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.