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Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in last fall and sentenced more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the move to detain the elderly politician was a preventative measure after fresh information emerged.

This included seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a summons to a demonstration that could "allow for a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, Justice Moraes said data from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.

This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.

His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on social media on the previous day: Will you battle for your nation, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your couch? I call on you to struggle with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of the judge's ruling was the potential of the former president's "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of arranging to ask for protection through a consular facility", a declaration said.

The legal document highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is situated around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

Bolsonaro is being held in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also asked that the former president be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Background on Conviction

He was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which included plans to kill Lula and his running partner, Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The conspiracy was thwarted because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. The current president was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on 8 January, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the capital, the capital city.

The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, restore order and reinstate his authority.

At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.

He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The ex-leader called the court case a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 national vote.