The detainee is part of a “criminal trio” who planned to “explode a fuel truck on Christmas Eve last year,” near the capital’s airport, the Ministry of Justice and Security said in a statement.
The subject, who was a fugitive from justice, was identified by the Mato Grosso state civil police as Alan Diego dos Santos Rodrigues, 32 years old.
The police of the town of Comodoro, in that state of the central west of Brazil“came into contact with people close to the suspect and, after negotiations, this Tuesday he appeared at the police headquarters,” detailed the official note.
A “third participant is on the run and continues to be sought,” the statement added.
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The first of those arrested George Washington de Oliveira Sousa, a supporter of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, he had been captured hours after the truck driver found the device, which failed to explode despite an attempt, and alerted authorities.
Oliveira Sousa said that the bomb was part of a plan to “start chaos” and “prevent the establishment of communism in Brazil”, according to statements published in local media at the time of the arrest.
Bolsonaro supporters blocked roads and demonstrated outside army barracks across the country for weeks after Lula’s narrow victory in the October 30 presidential runoff.
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The discovery of the explosive triggered a heavy security operation at the inauguration of the leftist president on January 1, followed a week later by violent riots in Brasilia by thousands of Bolsonaro supporters who vandalized government buildings.
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