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Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.

The ex-president was found guilty of plotting a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.

This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a filing authorising the custody, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.

This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his son.

His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.

The senator wrote on online platforms on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or see it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I call on you to battle with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could "pray for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of the former president's transfer to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a record of arranging to ask for protection through a consular facility", a statement said.

The court filing underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

International Reactions

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist American leader President Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

Bolsonaro is being held in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he required frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was determined responsible of heading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.

The conspiracy was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised public facilities in the capital, the capital city.

The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the protesters had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, restore order and return him to office.

At the time, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the next presidential race.