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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.

The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in September and sentenced more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.

High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.

This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said data from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.

His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a meeting of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of his "relocation to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is located around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.

International Reactions

Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist United States President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will experience a detention review on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he required regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was convicted of leading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his running partner, Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The scheme was prevented because it didn't receive the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. His successor was sworn in without issue on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, the capital city.

The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to step in, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.

At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from campaigning for office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The former president called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 national vote.