🔗 Share this article The former Brazilian president taken into custody after being considered a escape threat Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement. The one-time leader was found guilty of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and handed more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under home detention pending legal challenges. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light. This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a call for a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a possible escape. Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns In a document approving the detention, the judge said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to ensure success in his flight. This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child. His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a gathering of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening. His son wrote on social media on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I urge you to struggle with us." He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation." Foreign Shelter Risks Part of the magistrate's decision was the potential of the former president's "relocation to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of organizing to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said. The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, Brasilia, is located around 13km from Bolsonaro's home. Worldwide Consequences Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist American leader President Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods. The former president is being detained in a national police facility in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day. Recent Legal Requests It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices. They also asked that the former president be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other illnesses. Background on Conviction He was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the national vote to his political opponent, Lula. Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plan which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial. The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023. But a following week, on January 8th, many Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, BrasÃlia. The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody. The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and bring him back to power. At the time, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive. He was also banned 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 legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.