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The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.

The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under confinement pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information were revealed.

This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a document approving the custody, the magistrate said information from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his getaway".

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

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a senator, called for a assembly of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's determination was the potential of his transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of arranging to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The court filing highlights that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

Bolsonaro is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will have a detention review on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that the former president be allowed to depart his residence for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was found guilty of heading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he knew of a scheme which encompassed plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.

The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without incident on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers attacked and damaged official structures in the capital, the capital city.

The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to step in, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.

At the moment, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from running for public office until 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.

The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him participating in the next presidential race.