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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.

The ex-president was found guilty of plotting a government overthrow in last fall and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" were revealed.

This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a call for a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.

This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his child.

His son, Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a gathering of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.

The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to fight with us."

He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of his move to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a history of arranging to seek refuge through a consular facility", a statement said.

The court filing emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President Donald Trump, prompting him to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.

The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also requested that the former president be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other illnesses.

Background on Conviction

The former president was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.

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

But a following week, on 8 January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, Brasília.

The law enforcement stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.

The judges found that the protesters had been provoked by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the moment, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from running for public office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the next presidential race.