Bolsonaro taken into custody after being considered a risk of fleeing
Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was convicted of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced more than a 27-year term in prison, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after recent developments came to light.
This involved attempting to break his tracking device and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a document approving the arrest, the magistrate said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his child.
His son, Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The legal document underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 8 miles from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader President Trump, causing him to enact a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also asked that he be authorized to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his left-wing rival, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been managing the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the military leaders. The current president was sworn in without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, the capital city.
The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.
