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The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The former head of state was sentenced of planning a government overthrow in last fall and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a preventative measure after recent developments were revealed.

This included attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the custody, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

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

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

His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

International Reactions

Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist US President Donald Trump, prompting him to implement a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.

He is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will have a detention review on the following day.

Recent Legal Requests

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

They also asked that Bolsonaro be authorized to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he required frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the presidential race to his political opponent, President Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was thwarted because it didn't receive the support of the army and air force commanders. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers stormed and vandalised official structures in the national capital, Brasília.

The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.

The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and return him to office.

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

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

The former president called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.