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The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.

The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in last fall and handed more than 27 years in jail, but he was staying under home detention pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.

This included trying to remove his tracking device and a summons 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 unit overseeing his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".

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

His child, his son Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a gathering of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.

The senator wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of his transfer to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a consular facility", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is positioned around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will undergo a detention review on the following day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that he be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without problem on January 1st, 2023.

But a following week, on 8 January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the national capital, Brasília.

The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.

The judges found that the demonstrators had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the period, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The ex-leader called the court case a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 presidential election.