The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.
This included attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a document approving the detention, the judge said intelligence from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his son.
His offspring, Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of his "relocation to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The legal document emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, prompting him to implement a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a detention review on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also petitioned that he be allowed to leave his home for medical care, saying he required regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
The former president was convicted of leading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which included plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been managing the former president's case.
The plot was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the military leaders. The current president was sworn in without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, many Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, the capital city.
The police intervened and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the period, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the completion of his term.
The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the next presidential race.
