Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a military coup in September and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information came to light.
This involved trying to remove his tracking device and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his son.
His child, Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your settee? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's decision was the possibility of his move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The court filing underscores that the US embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
He was convicted of orchestrating a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which involved plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. The current president was took office without issue on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The police stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been provoked by him whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him competing in the 2026 national vote.
