Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in last fall and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he continued under home detention pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the elderly politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.
This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a gathering of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on last Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of his move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist United States President Trump, causing him to impose a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in the capital and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be authorized to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of leading a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which included plans to kill Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was prevented because it couldn't obtain the support of the military leaders. Lula was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, many Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.
