Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a government overthrow in September and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after recent developments emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a gathering of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your nation, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's decision was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of organizing to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The court filing underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brasilia, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, prompting him to impose a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also asked that the former president be allowed to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he required ongoing care for lung conditions and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
He was determined responsible of orchestrating a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing the former president's case.
The plot was prevented because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. His successor was sworn in without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, many his backers invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the period, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.
