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

The one-time leader was found guilty of plotting a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under house arrest pending legal challenges.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information came to light.

This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a call for a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a filing authorising the arrest, the judge said information from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on social media on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The legal document highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist American leader Donald Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

He is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a custody hearing on the next day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.

They also petitioned that he be authorized to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he demanded ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Context of Sentencing

The former president was convicted of leading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plan which included plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the support of the military leaders. The current president was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of his backers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, the capital city.

The police intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The judges found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the moment, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also banned from seeking elected position until 2060 - eight years after the completion of his term.

The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.