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Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat 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 incarceration, but he was staying under confinement pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.

This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a document approving the arrest, the magistrate said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the protest called by his offspring.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a assembly of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.

His son wrote on online platforms on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a history of arranging to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President President Trump, leading him to implement a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.

The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.

They also requested that he be permitted to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for lung conditions and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

He was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plot which included plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.

The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without issue on 1 January 2023.

But a seven days after, on January 8th, many his backers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the capital, Brazil's capital.

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

The justices found that the protesters had been incited by him whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, restore order and bring him back to power.

At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

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

The one-time head of state called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 presidential election.