The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The ex-president was sentenced of planning a government overthrow in last fall and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.
This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a summons to a public vigil that could facilitate a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said data from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a senator, called for a assembly of his backers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The court filing emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President Trump, leading him to impose a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being kept 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 last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that he be allowed to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was convicted of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was inaugurated without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, the capital city.
The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the time, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the court case a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 presidential election.
