Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, said that he has not yet had access to all the security tapes to find out what happened in Brasilia on January 8, the day he was visiting people in the state of Sao Paulo affected by the rains.
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, considered this Friday, January 13, that there was complicity of some military officials and the violent demonstration that took place on Sunday, January 8, in the government buildings of Brasilia.
This was stated by Lula da Silva in a balance sheet on what he described as an attempted coup d’état, while declaring that he has not yet had access to all the information on the actions that took place in the capital of the Amazonian nation.
“I am waiting for the dust to subside, I want to see all the tapes recorded from within the Supreme Court, the Chamber (Parliament), there were many people conniving, there were many people conniving in the Military Police, many people from the Armed Forces,” assured.
He believes that someone opened the door of the Planalto palace, seat of the Brazilian presidency, for people to enter and emphasized that it was not broken by the protesters. He said that from this point on, they will be tougher and more cautious to prevent such situations from happening again.
He took advantage of the balance to ratify the Defense Minister, Jose Mucio Monteiro, in office, as reported ANSA.
For his part, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, considers that the violent actions against government buildings in Brazil is not something that was planned on the same day, but has been brewing for years thanks to the polarization that occurred during the administration of Jair Bolsonaro.
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“Political parties have been demonized, the judiciary has been persecuted, the press has been vilified, and civil society has been marginalized from the main debates (…) Social networks have exacerbated these trends, deepening the division in Brazilian society,” he wrote. Borrell in his blog, which was reviewed by the Italian news agency.
Meanwhile, the Brazilian Federal Police found in the house of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres a proposed decree to introduce a state of emergency and annul the results of the October 31 elections, although the former official denied being the author of such a document. through a statement to which he referred CNN.
“As Minister of Justice, we are faced with hearings, suggestions and proposals of the most diverse types,” he wrote. “In my house there was a pile of discarded documents, where the material described in the article was most likely found,” he added. “Everything would be taken to be shredded at the Ministry of Justice at the time.”
Brazilian police released the Tuesday January 10 “for humanitarian reasons” half a thousand people detained after the assault on official buildings in Brasilia that occurred last Sunday, January 8, while 527 suspects were transferred to a local prison, while cleaning and restoration work continues. three jewels of modern architecture: the headquarters of the Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was in Sao Paulo on January 8 when the violent mobilization took place in the country’s capital. From that entity he decreed the intervention of the Federal District with the intention of finding all those responsible for the incident.
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