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The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.

The ex-president was convicted of orchestrating a armed takeover in September and handed more than a 27-year term in jail, but he was staying under confinement pending legal challenges.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.

This included attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a document approving the detention, the judge said information from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.

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

His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on the previous day: Will you battle for your nation, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our country."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of arranging to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The court filing highlights that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist United States President Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being detained in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a custody hearing on the next day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also asked that the former president be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of heading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

High Court judges said that he was aware of a plan which involved plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The plot was stopped because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the military leaders. Lula was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.

The security forces took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.

The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

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

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

The former president called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.