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Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in September and given more than 27 years in prison, but he was staying under confinement pending court reviews.

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 call for a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, Justice Moraes said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his escape.

This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.

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

The senator wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of the judge's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The court filing emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, causing him to enact a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.

The former president is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will undergo a custody hearing on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that he be allowed to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he demanded regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Context of Sentencing

He was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plan which included plans to murder Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without incident on 1 January 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, Brasília.

The law enforcement took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The judges 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 reinstate his authority.

At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".

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

The ex-leader called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.