Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.
The ex-president was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under confinement pending court reviews.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after recent developments came to light.
This involved attempting to break his ankle monitor and a summons to a demonstration that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a senator, called for a gathering of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your sofa? I invite you to fight with us."
He said the demonstration would be so backers could "pray for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a record of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a statement said.
The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is situated around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, leading him to implement a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being held in a national police facility in Brasilia and will undergo a detention review on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for lung conditions and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his running partner, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it didn't receive 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 his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The police stepped in and around 1,500 people were detained.
The justices found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and return him to office.
At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from running for public office until the year 2060 - 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 2026 national vote.
