The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after recent developments came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a summons to a public vigil that could "allow for a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or see it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so backers could "pray for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's decision was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a history of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The court filing underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
The former president's legal troubles have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was convicted of leading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plan which involved plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, many his followers attacked and damaged official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around 1,500 people were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the moment, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.
