Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was convicted of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the move to detain the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.
This involved trying to remove his ankle monitor and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said data from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His son, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Will you battle for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the chance of the former president's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of arranging to request asylum through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The court filing emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative US President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will have a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that he be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Background on Conviction
The former president was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was prevented because it didn't receive the backing of the army and air force commanders. The current president was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The justices found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the period, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.
