Far-right protesters supporting President Jair Bolsonaro Dozens of cars and buses were burned this Monday in various regions of Brasilia to protest against the election of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was made official as the future head of state by the electoral court.
According to police sources, Bolsonaro commandos tried to enter the Federal Police headquarters after an indigenous leader allied with Bolsonaro had been arrested for anti-democratic acts.
The police of the Federal District of Brasilia used gas and rubber bullets to prevent the invasion of the Federal Police building.
“The situation is extremely tense,” said a police spokesman quoted by CNN Brazil.
Various groups circulated through the wide avenues of Brasilia committing acts of vandalism and that is why Lula’s security was reinforced at the Meliá 21 hotel, where he was staying after being certified this afternoon as president-elect in a ceremony at the Court. Electoral Superior.
After that act, Bolsonaro received hundreds of protesters in the gardens of the presidential residence, the Alvorada Palace, who demand that the Army carry out a coup to avoid the third term of office of the leader of the Workers’ Party.
In that small informal event, a priest, next to Bolsonaro, encouraged the coup leaders to continue demonstrating and called Lula a “thief.”
“President Lula’s security is being ensured“, affirmed the future Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flavio Dino.
The governor of Brasilia, Ibanés Rocha, said that the police were in a position to control the riot situations.
This Monday night there were blockades in some accesses to the Esplanade of the Ministries, the nucleus of the powers of the Brazilian capital.
Bolsonarists who demand a coup d’état have been demonstrating since October 30, when the president failed in his re-election, at the door of the Army barracks.
