The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a military coup in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under home detention pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.
This involved trying to remove his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a filing authorising the detention, the magistrate said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His child, his son Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could offer prayers for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of his "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a history of planning to request asylum through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the US embassy in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Donald Trump, causing him to enact a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will experience a detention review on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also asked that he be allowed to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he required frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which involved plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without incident on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the protesters had been incited by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from seeking elected position until 2060 - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.