Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the magistrate said information from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on digital networks on Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could offer prayers for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's transfer to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
He is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will undergo a detention review on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also asked that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the national vote to his left-wing rival, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to kill his opponent and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without incident on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, many his backers invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, the capital city.
The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the trial a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 national vote.
