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Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under confinement pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" were revealed.

This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a demonstration that could enable a chance to flee".

Judicial Records Show Escape Risks

In a document approving the detention, the magistrate said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his escape.

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

His child, his son Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a gathering of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.

His son wrote on social media on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, Brasilia, is situated around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

International Reactions

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

He is being held in a Federal Police station in the capital and will have a detention review on the following day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that he be allowed to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate his opponent and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The scheme was thwarted because it didn't receive the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without issue on 1 January 2023.

But a following week, on 8 January, numerous his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the federal district, Brasília.

The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The judges found that the protesters had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to step in, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

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

He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight 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 2026 national vote.