Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.
This included attempting to break his ankle monitor and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the magistrate said data from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your settee? I invite you to fight with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of his transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.
International Reactions
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative US President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a Federal Police station in the capital and will have a custody hearing on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for lung conditions and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the national vote to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plan which included plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The plot was thwarted because it didn't receive the backing of the army and air force commanders. Lula was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, many his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the federal district, the capital city.
The law enforcement stepped in and around 1,500 people were detained.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, bring back stability and return him to office.
At the moment, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.
