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Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The ex-president was found guilty of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" emerged.

This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a filing authorising the custody, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his son.

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

The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could "pray for his health and for the return of democracy in our country."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of his "relocation to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around 8 miles from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, prompting him to impose a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that he be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Background on Conviction

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which involved plans to kill Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.

The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised government buildings in the capital, Brazil's capital.

The law enforcement took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.

The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

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

He was also banned from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.

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