Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The former head of state was convicted of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.
This involved trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a demonstration that could enable a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the detention, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His child, his son Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's decision was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a consular facility", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Trump, causing him to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.
Bolsonaro is being held in a national police facility in the capital and will have a custody hearing on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that he be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his left-wing rival, Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which included plans to kill Lula and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the military leaders. The current president was sworn in without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, numerous his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from seeking elected position until 2060 - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 national vote.
