Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a preventative measure after recent developments came to light.
This included trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the custody, the judge said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a senator, called for a assembly of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on last Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or see it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of his move to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a history of planning to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The court filing highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a detention review on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the High Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be allowed to leave his home for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Context of Sentencing
He was determined responsible of leading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to murder the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was prevented because it failed to get the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without issue on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on 8 January, numerous his backers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the period, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 presidential election.
