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

The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he continued under confinement pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.

This encompassed seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a document approving the arrest, the judge said data from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his getaway".

This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his child.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your country, or see it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the judge's decision was the possibility of the former president's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a history of planning to request asylum through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is located around 13km from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative US President Trump, leading him to enact a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will have a detention review on Sunday.

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 requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was found guilty of orchestrating 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 knew of a plot which involved plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.

The scheme was prevented because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was inaugurated without incident on 1 January 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of his backers invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, Brasília.

The law enforcement took action and around 1,500 people were detained.

The judges found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.

At the period, the legal team called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him competing in the next presidential race.