Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The former head of state was found guilty of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in prison, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.
This encompassed seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could "allow for a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a filing authorising the custody, the judge said data from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your settee? I invite you to fight with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The legal document emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be authorized to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plan which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, 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 couldn't obtain the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. Lula was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on January 8th, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.
The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The justices found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 national vote.
