Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The former head of state was convicted of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he was staying under house arrest pending court reviews.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.
This included seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a call for a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his son.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's decision was the potential of his "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of planning to request asylum through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brasilia, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Trump, causing him to implement a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have 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 High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also requested that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
Bolsonaro was convicted of heading a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which involved plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it didn't receive the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the capital, Brasília.
The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The justices found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the time, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from running for public office until the year 2060 - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the court case a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 national vote.
