The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.
The former head of state was convicted of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in prison, but he continued under home detention pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the magistrate said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your couch? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's determination was the potential of the former president's move to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The legal document underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from his dwelling.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, prompting him to implement a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was thwarted because it didn't receive the backing of the army and air force commanders. His successor was sworn in without issue on 1 January 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged official structures in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The justices found that the rioters had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the court case a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.
