Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The former head of state was found guilty of planning a military coup in September and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending legal challenges.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" emerged.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a demonstration that could enable a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the magistrate said data from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of his transfer to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.
The court filing highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a detention review on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under home confinement, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The plot was stopped because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, many his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The police took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to step in, reestablish control and return him to office.
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 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.
