Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The one-time leader was convicted of orchestrating a government overthrow in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he continued under confinement pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after recent developments were revealed.
This involved attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could "allow for a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a document approving the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the protest called by his son.
His child, Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is situated around 8 miles from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader President Trump, prompting him to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.
He is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will undergo a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that the former president be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of heading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plan which included plans to murder Lula and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The justices found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.
