Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" 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 arrest, Justice Moraes said information from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a gathering of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on social media on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our country."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's decision was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a Federal Police station in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that he be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for lung conditions and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the national vote to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a scheme which encompassed plans to kill his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from running for public office until 2060 - eight years later after the completion of his term.
The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 national vote.
