The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a military coup in September and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a preventative measure after fresh information came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the gathering 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 the weekend.
The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: Will you battle for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's determination was the chance of his move to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, leading him to implement a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will experience a custody hearing on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that he be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his left-wing rival, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plot which encompassed plans to murder the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without incident on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 national vote.