The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.
The one-time leader was convicted of plotting a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under confinement pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after recent developments emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, Justice Moraes said data from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could "pray for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the chance of the former president's move to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a history of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in Brasilia and will experience a detention review on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that the former president be allowed to depart his residence for medical care, saying he demanded regular treatment for lung conditions and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the national vote to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The scheme was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the military leaders. Lula was took office without issue on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the period, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from seeking elected position until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.
