Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after recent developments emerged.
This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could facilitate a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the detention, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or see it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, Brasilia, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist United States President President Trump, leading him to enact a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being detained in a Federal Police station in the capital and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which included plans to kill Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the military leaders. The current president was sworn in without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, thousands of his backers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the capital, the capital city.
The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also banned from campaigning for office until 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 presidential election.