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The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.

The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in last fall and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information came to light.

This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his escape.

This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the protest called by his child.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a senator, called for a assembly of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.

The senator wrote on social media on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your couch? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of the judge's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The legal document highlights that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 13km from the former president's residence.

International Reactions

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

The former president is being held in a national police facility in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.

They also requested that he be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for lung conditions and other health problems.

Background on Conviction

He was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his running partner, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was prevented because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without incident on 1 January 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, Brasília.

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

The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been incited by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, restore order and return him to office.

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

He was also prohibited from running for public office until 2060 - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 national vote.