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Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.

The ex-president was sentenced of planning a military coup in the ninth month and given more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information were revealed.

This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a demonstration that could enable a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".

This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child.

His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I urge you to struggle with us."

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

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the potential of his "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a history of arranging to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The legal document emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

International Reactions

The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being detained in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on the next day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also asked that the former president be authorized to leave his home for medical care, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Background on Conviction

Bolsonaro was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at retaining his authority 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 involved plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The scheme was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without problem on 1 January 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.

The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The magistrates found that the protesters had been provoked by him whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, restore order and reinstate his authority.

At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The former president called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.