Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The former head of state was found guilty of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he was staying under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after recent developments came to light.
This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his son.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your sofa? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could offer prayers for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the possibility of the former president's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a record of planning to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist American leader Donald Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being held in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a detention review on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also petitioned that he be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plan which involved plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was prevented because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without incident on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, many his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, the capital city.
The police stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the next presidential race.
