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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.

The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" were revealed.

This included trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a document approving the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

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

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

The senator wrote on social media on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I invite you to fight with us."

He said the gathering would be so backers could "pray for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of his move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to ask for protection through a consular facility", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

He is being held in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on the next day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.

They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Background on Conviction

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.

The plot was stopped because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, numerous his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

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

The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the court case a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 national vote.