The Brazilian Civil Police reported this Sunday that a man detained on Saturday night, suspected of trying to blow up a fuel truck, assured that he planned to detonate explosives in at least two places in Brasilia with the purpose of frustrating the inauguration of President-elect Luiz Inácio. Lula da Silva, scheduled for next Sunday.
The detainee, identified as George Washington de Oliveira Sousa, said that he planned these events together with protesters who support President Jair Bolsonaro and who remain in front of the Army Headquarters (QG, in Portuguese) in Brasilia asking for his intervention to ignore the October electoral result.
The goal was “start the chaos” that would lead to the “state of siege decree in the country”, which could “cause the intervention of the Armed Forces”according to the police.
In the version given to the police, to which the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo had access, he mentioned a device located on Saturday in the vicinity of the airport of the capital.
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The Civil Police detained Oliveira Sousa on Saturday night on suspicion of having tried to blow up a fuel truck near the Brasilia International Airport.
“He had a lot of explosive material in his residence, which shows that he had more intentions,” the police chief said. Robson Cândido after the arrest.
According to the suspect’s version, he also planned to install explosives on poles near an electrical substation in Taguatinga, a city in the Federal District.
“An unknown woman suggested to the protesters at the barracks that a bomb be installed in the Taguatinga electrical substation to cause a lack of electricity and start the chaos that would lead to the declaration of a state of siege”confessed the detainee, 54 years old.
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He said that he works as a manager at a service station in the interior of the state of Pará and that, since October last year, when he obtained the license to carry weapons, he has bought pistols, revolvers, rifles, carbines and ammunition.
In addition to being captured, he was also the subject of a search and seizure.
Investigators collected at least five explosives similar to the one used in the truck, several weapons and a rifle.
Oliveira Sousa declared that he was a Bolsonaro supporter and participated in the camp created in front of the QG in the Brazilian capital.
Cândido also said that the suspect will be charged with illegal possession and carrying of firearms, ammunition and explosive devices, in addition to a crime against the democratic rule of law.
