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

The ex-president was found guilty of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than a 27-year term in jail, but he continued under home detention pending appeals.

High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" emerged.

This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Flight Fears

In a document approving the custody, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his flight.

This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his offspring.

His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.

The senator wrote on social media on last Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I call on you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the judge's determination was the chance of the former president's transfer to foreign missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 13km from the former president's residence.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

He is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a detention review on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also asked that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he required regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The scheme was stopped because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without issue on 1 January 2023.

But a following week, on 8 January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, Brasília.

The police took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.

The judges found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.

At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also prohibited from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later 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 next presidential race.