Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was sentenced of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he continued under confinement pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This involved seeking to disable his tracking device and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the detention, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
His son wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your settee? 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."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of the former president's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The legal document underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brasilia, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, causing him to enact a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he demanded regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of heading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plan which included plans to assassinate the current president and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. The current president was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, numerous his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, the capital city.
The police took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the period, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 national vote.
