The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under house arrest pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after recent developments were revealed.
This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his son.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's decision was the chance of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The court filing emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Trump, prompting him to impose a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being held in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will experience a detention review on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he needed ongoing care for lung conditions and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which included plans to kill his opponent and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. The current president was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the trial a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the next presidential race.
