Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in last fall and given more than 27 years in jail, but he continued under house arrest pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a preventative measure after recent developments came to light.
This included seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said information from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove 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 child.
His child, Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the potential of his move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist US President Donald Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will have a detention review on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also asked that he be authorized to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
Bolsonaro was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a scheme which involved plans to kill his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The plot was stopped because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the capital, Brasília.
The security forces intervened and around 1,500 people were detained.
The justices found that the protesters had been incited by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the moment, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the court case a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.
