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The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a military coup in September and handed more than a 27-year term in jail, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information were revealed.

This involved trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a chance to flee".

Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears

In a document approving the detention, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his flight.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his followers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.

His son wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's decision was the possibility of his "relocation to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.

The court filing highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 13km from the former president's residence.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in Brasilia and will experience a detention review on the following day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the High Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with digital surveillance.

They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for lung conditions and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of heading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to kill the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the endorsement of the military leaders. The current president was sworn in without incident on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.

The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, restore order and reinstate his authority.

At the time, the legal team called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 presidential election.