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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.

The one-time leader was found guilty of plotting a armed takeover in September and given more than a 27-year term in prison, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.

High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.

This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his child.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I invite you to fight with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.

The court filing emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is situated around 13km from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist United States President President Trump, prompting him to enact a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.

The former president is being held in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on the next day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was determined responsible of heading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, President Lula.

High Court judges said that he knew of a scheme which involved plans to murder the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The conspiracy was prevented because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.

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

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

The justices found that the rioters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, restore order and reinstate his authority.

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

He was also barred from running for public office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

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