Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a government overthrow in September and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending court reviews.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.
This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your couch? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's determination was the chance of his "relocation to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, causing him to enact a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will undergo 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 asked that he be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he demanded regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plot which included plans to assassinate Lula and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The plot was stopped because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without incident on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, Brasília.
The law enforcement stepped in and around 1,500 people were detained.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until the year 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the trial a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 national vote.
