Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was found guilty of plotting a armed takeover in last fall and given more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a document approving the custody, the judge said information from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the protest called by his child.
His offspring, Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.
His son wrote on social media on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so backers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's "relocation to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The legal document emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, the capital city, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative US President Trump, causing him to implement a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment 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 fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also asked that he be allowed to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
He was found guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plan which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The plot was prevented because it couldn't obtain the support of the military leaders. His successor was inaugurated without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the capital, the capital city.
The police intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, restore order and return him to office.
At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
