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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The former head of state was convicted of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and handed more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.

This encompassed seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a demonstration that could facilitate a possible escape.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks

In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said information from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to guarantee victory in his flight.

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

His child, his son Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near his father's house to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."

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

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's ruling was the potential of the former president's transfer to embassies near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The court filing highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brasilia, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist American leader Donald Trump, leading 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 custody hearing on the next day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that Bolsonaro be authorized to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

He was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to kill his opponent and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.

The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the military leaders. Lula was took office without issue on 1 January 2023.

But a seven days after, on January 8th, numerous Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, Brasília.

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

The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and return him to office.

At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 national vote.