The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he continued under home detention pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" came to light.
This involved seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the custody, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his child.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a senator, called for a gathering of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your sofa? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the demonstration would be so backers could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a history of organizing to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
He is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that the former president be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he required regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Context of Sentencing
Bolsonaro was found guilty of heading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was prevented because it couldn't obtain the support of the military leaders. Lula was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of his backers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the 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 strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and return him to office.
At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
