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The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.

The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a government overthrow in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he continued under house arrest pending court reviews.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after recent developments came to light.

This involved trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the custody, the magistrate said intelligence from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the protest called by his child.

His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."

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

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's decision was the potential of the former president's move to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The court filing highlights that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President President Trump, causing him to enact a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.

The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.

They also asked that he be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the national vote to his left-wing rival, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The scheme was prevented because it failed to get the backing of the army and air force commanders. The current president was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on 8 January, thousands of his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, the capital city.

The police intervened and around 1,500 people were arrested.

The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and return him to office.

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

He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The one-time head of state called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 presidential election.