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Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.

The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information were revealed.

This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to guarantee victory in his escape.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child.

His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.

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

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

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The court filing underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

Bolsonaro is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a custody hearing on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other ailments.

Context of Sentencing

The former president was convicted of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the presidential race to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which included plans to assassinate his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.

The plot was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, many his backers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the capital, Brasília.

The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.

The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from running for public office until the year 2060 - 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 aimed at blocking him competing in the 2026 presidential election.