Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was convicted of plotting a military coup in last fall and given more than a 27-year term in jail, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after fresh information came to light.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a call for a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said data from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
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 evening.
His son wrote on social media on the previous day: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your settee? I call on you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's decision was the chance of Bolsonaro's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The court filing underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, causing him to implement a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to kill his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was prevented because it didn't receive the endorsement of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on January 8th, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the period, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until the year 2060 - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him competing in the 2026 presidential election.
