Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in last fall and given more than a 27-year term in jail, but he was staying under house arrest pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the custody, Justice Moraes said data from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His child, his son Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a assembly of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on digital networks on Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your couch? I urge you to fight 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 nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of the former president's move to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.
The legal document highlights that the United States embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist US President Donald Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being detained in a national police facility in Brasilia and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be allowed to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plot which included plans to assassinate his opponent and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. The current president was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, many his followers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The police intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and return him to office.
At the period, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.
