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The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than 27 years in jail, but he continued under house arrest pending appeals.

High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after recent developments were revealed.

This involved seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Flight Fears

In a filing authorising the arrest, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

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

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a gathering of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your couch? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's decision was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of organizing to request asylum through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, causing him to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.

The former president is being held in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will have a custody hearing on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that he be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.

The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the backing of the army and air force commanders. His successor was took office without issue on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many his backers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the protesters had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and return him to office.

At the time, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The one-time head of state called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 national vote.