The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The ex-president was convicted of plotting a government overthrow in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under home detention pending legal challenges.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain 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 invitation to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a document approving the custody, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
His child, his son Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 8 miles from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being detained in a national police facility in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
He was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the presidential race to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plot which included plans to murder the current president and his running partner, Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without issue on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on 8 January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the national capital, the capital city.
The security forces intervened and around 1,500 people were arrested.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to step in, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the trial a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him participating in the next presidential race.
