The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, visited the Planalto Palace (government seat) and the supreme court in Brasilia on Sunday night to assess the damage left by the coup supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro who attacked for the late the headquarters of the three powers.
According to the authorities, and with conflicting versions between the Minister of Justice, the governor of Brasilia and the Brasilia police, close to 400 people were arrested for the attacks on government buildings.
In Sao Paulo, Lula had given a speech in which he described as “Nazis” and “fascists” those who invaded the headquarters of the three powers and decreed federal intervention in the security forces in Brasilia.
“We believe that there was a lack of security and I want to say that all the people who did this will be found and they will be punished,” Lula said. in the afternoon.
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“Unfortunately, the one that had to do the security of the federal district was the military police of the federal district and they did not do it; there was an incompetence, bad will or bad faith, you saw the images of how they accompanied you” to the protesters, he commented.
The ultra-rightists destroyed the offices of the supreme court, sat in the chair of the president of the Senate mocking the situation and broke the offices next to Lula’s, including that of the first lady, as well as works of art that are part of the archive national historic.
Lula’s office, because it had a reinforced door, was the only one not to be destroyed.
More than 80 buses had arrived in the federal capital on Saturday for a demonstration that had caught the attention of Justice Minister Flavio Dino, who had warned the governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, a Bolsonaro supporter of the situation who, according to the Constitution, is in charge of security in the Federal District.
The Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, said that in the next few hours police reinforcements will arrive in Brasilia and that for that, help was requested from other states, according to reports by CNN Brasil.
“They will not succeed in destroying Brazilian democracy,” the minister added at a press conference.
