Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The former head of state was convicted of orchestrating a military coup in last fall and given more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under home detention pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information came to light.
This involved attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could enable a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the magistrate said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the protest called by his child.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on Friday: Will you battle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I call on you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's decision was the chance of his move to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The court filing underscores that the US embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader Donald Trump, causing him to implement a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that the former president be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he required frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
Bolsonaro was determined responsible of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a scheme which involved plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. Lula was sworn in without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.
The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been incited by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.
