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Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The former head of state was found guilty of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after recent developments came to light.

This involved trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a possible escape.

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his flight.

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

His son, Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a gathering of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on digital networks on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the chance of his "relocation to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 8 miles from his dwelling.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist American leader President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

Bolsonaro is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with digital surveillance.

They also requested that Bolsonaro be allowed to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for lung conditions and other illnesses.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plot which included plans to assassinate the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without incident on 1 January 2023.

But a week later, on the eighth of January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the federal district, Brasília.

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

The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by him whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.

At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from seeking elected position until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 national vote.