The former Brazilian president taken into custody after being deemed a escape threat
Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a military coup in last fall and handed more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could facilitate a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the custody, the magistrate said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the protest called by his son.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his followers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's "relocation to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The court filing underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brasilia, is located around 13km from the former president's residence.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will have a custody hearing on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that he be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
Bolsonaro was determined responsible of leading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate his opponent and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, many Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed official structures in the capital, BrasĂlia.
The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by the former president whose scheme, 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 banned from running for public office until the year 2060 - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 presidential election.
