EFE Agency
Followers of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the Planalto Palace, the seat of the Executive, and the Supreme Court, after having previously broken into the National Congress in coup acts against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The windows of the headquarters of the Judiciary and the National Congress were broken by the protesters, who already occupy the buildings of the three powers in the country.
Hundreds of supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the headquarters of the National Congress this Sunday in a demonstration calling for a military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The group, which defends coup theses, overcame a police barrier and climbed the ramp that gives access to the roof of the buildings of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and some entered inside the legislative headquarters.
The extremists, mostly wearing yellow and green shirts and Brazilian flags, also attacked some vehicles of the Legislative Police, which provides security for Congress.
They also destroyed protection barriers and, armed with sticks, confronted the agents who unsuccessfully tried to contain the entry of the protesters.
Lula, who assumed the Presidency of Brazil on January 1, is traveling this weekend in the city of Araraquara, in Sao Paulo.
Hundreds of radical Bolsonaro supporters have been camped out in front of the Army Headquarters in Brasilia since the day after the elections on October 30, in which Lula defeated Bolsonaro.
The Brazilian Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, affirmed that “the will of the radical Bolsonarists who have invaded the National Congress and surround the headquarters of the Executive and the Judiciary, in a coup demonstration, will not prevail.”
Dino said in a Twitter message that “there will be reinforcements” of the police and that the forces that are available “are acting.”
The president of the Brazilian Congress, Senator Rodrigo Pacheco, called for the “urgent” punishment and with the “rigor of the law” of the Bolsonaro radicals who have invaded the headquarters of Parliament, the Presidency of the Republic and the Supreme Court, in Brasilia.
“I vehemently repudiate these undemocratic acts, which must urgently suffer the rigor of the law,” Pacheco said, in a message posted on his social networks.
The senator reported that he is in “permanent contact” with the governor of the Federal District of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, who assured him that “he is concentrating the efforts of the entire police apparatus” to “control the situation.”
“In the action, the security forces of the Federal District are engaged, in addition to the Legislative Police of Congress,” added Pacheco.
