The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The former head of state was convicted of plotting a government overthrow in September and handed more than 27 years in prison, but he continued under home detention pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the surveillance device to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or see 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 physical condition and for the return of democracy in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the chance of the former president's "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a history of organizing to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Donald Trump, prompting him to impose a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being detained in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be authorized to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
The former president was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plot which involved plans to murder the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the military leaders. The current president was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on January 8th, many his backers attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.
The police intervened and around 1,500 people were detained.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and return him to office.
At the period, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the court case a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
