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Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in September and handed more than 27 years in prison, but he continued under home detention pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after fresh information came to light.

This included attempting to break his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could "allow for a chance to flee".

Judicial Records Show Escape Risks

In a document approving the detention, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his offspring.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.

His son wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so supporters could offer prayers for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's "relocation to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in the capital and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be authorized to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.

Background on Conviction

The former president was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plan which included plans to assassinate the current president and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was prevented because it failed to get the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. His successor was sworn in without incident on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, the capital city.

The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.

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

He was also banned from seeking elected position until 2060 - eight years later after the completion of his term.

The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.