The former Brazilian president arrested after being declared a flight risk

The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The ex-president was convicted of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under home detention pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after fresh information came to light.

This included trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a document approving the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.

This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.

His son wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."

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

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's determination was the chance of the former president's move to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is situated around 13km from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative US President President Trump, leading him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a custody hearing on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.

They also asked that he be permitted to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for lung conditions and other illnesses.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plan which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.

The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. His successor was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

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

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

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

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.

The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.