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Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The ex-president was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and given more than a 27-year term in jail, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.

This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his escape.

This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the protest called by his son.

His offspring, Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his backers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.

His son wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's decision was the possibility of his "relocation to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

He is being kept in a national police facility in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also requested that the former president be authorized to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a scheme which encompassed plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. Lula was inaugurated without problem on January 1st, 2023.

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

The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The justices found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, reestablish control and return him to office.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also banned from campaigning for office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 national vote.