The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a military coup in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information were revealed.
This included trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a public vigil that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a document approving the detention, the judge said information from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's transfer to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a history of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
The former president's legal troubles have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist US President President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also asked that the former president be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to kill the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the backing of the armed forces officials. The current president was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on January 8th, many Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, the capital city.
The police took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from running for public office until 2060 - eight years after the completion of his term.
The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 national vote.
