🔗 Share this article Jair Bolsonaro detained after being deemed a escape threat Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement. The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under confinement pending legal challenges. High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" emerged. This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight. Court Filing Details Flight Fears In a filing authorising the arrest, Justice Moraes said data from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to guarantee victory in his getaway". This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring. His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night. His son wrote on social media on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I invite you to battle with us." He said the demonstration would be so supporters could "pray for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation." Diplomatic Refuge Fears Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's "relocation to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said. The legal document highlights that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is located around 13km from the former president's residence. Global Responses His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President President Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil. He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will experience a detention review on Sunday. Recent Legal Requests It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with digital surveillance. They also requested that he be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other ailments. Background on Conviction Bolsonaro was convicted of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which included plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing his judicial proceedings. The plot was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was inaugurated without incident on the first day of 2023. But a seven days after, on January 8th, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, the capital city. The security forces took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained. The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and bring him back to power. At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe". He was also prohibited from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment. The former president called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 national vote.