The former Brazilian president arrested after being declared a escape threat
Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in prison, but he remained under house arrest pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after fresh information came to light.
This included attempting to break his ankle monitor and a call for a public vigil that could enable a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a document approving the custody, the judge said information from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of the former president's transfer to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The court filing emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, causing him to implement a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being detained in a national police facility in Brasilia and will have a custody hearing on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he required frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plot which involved plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The plot was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the military leaders. Lula was sworn in without issue on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The police stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the period, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.
