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

The one-time leader was convicted of planning a government overthrow in last fall and handed more than 27 years in incarceration, but he continued under confinement pending legal challenges.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after recent developments came to light.

This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a possible escape.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the magistrate said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.

His child, his son Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the return of democracy in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's ruling was the possibility of his transfer to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a record of planning to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

International Reactions

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

The former president is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a custody hearing on the next day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was found guilty of heading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plan which encompassed plans to murder the current president and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been managing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was stopped because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without incident on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on 8 January, thousands of his backers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, Brasília.

The law enforcement stepped in and around 1,500 people were detained.

The judges found that the rioters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and return him to office.

At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

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

The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him participating in the next presidential race.