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The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.

The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a military coup in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.

This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a summons to a demonstration that could enable a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a document approving the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his getaway".

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your sofa? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance 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 dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the US embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is located around 13km from the former president's residence.

International Reactions

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist United States President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will undergo a detention review on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.

They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he demanded regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a scheme which included plans to assassinate his opponent and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The plot was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. The current president was inaugurated without issue on January 1st, 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.

The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the time, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 national vote.