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

The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending legal challenges.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" came to light.

This involved seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's "intention to break the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".

This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his son.

His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your settee? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the judge's decision was the chance of the former president's move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of arranging to seek refuge through a embassy office", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

He is being detained in a national police facility in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.

They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Background on Conviction

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

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plot which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing his judicial proceedings.

The plot was prevented because it didn't receive the support of the military leaders. Lula was inaugurated without issue on 1 January 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The police stepped in and around 1,500 people were detained.

The magistrates found that the protesters had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to step in, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the next presidential race.