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

The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in prison, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" were revealed.

This involved seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears

In a document approving the detention, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his getaway".

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

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."

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

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of the former president's move to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

International Reactions

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

He is being held in a national police facility in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also asked that he be allowed to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he demanded ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he knew of a plot which included plans to kill his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.

The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without incident on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on 8 January, thousands of his followers stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, the capital city.

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

The judges found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the period, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.

He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the completion of his term.

The former president called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the next presidential race.