Thousands of followers of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who ddefend a coup to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvainvaded this Sunday the Planalto Palace, the National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF, supreme court), in Brasilia, practically without resistance from the police of the federal capital.
Lula was in Araraquara, in the interior of São Paulo, on a visit scheduled for Friday to see disaster areas caused by the rains, while some protesters came to the door of the Planalto Palace, the seat of government, according to the report. GloboNews channel.
The demonstrators broke windows, security cameras, cabinets and offices in the Planalto and the STF.
They arrived in caravans from all over the country, while Bolsonaro is in Orlando, United States, where he traveled after leaving power.
“These undemocratic acts must suffer the rigor of the law,” said the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco.
The situation was compared to the invasion of the Capitol, the United States Congress, in January 2020 to ignore the electoral defeat of then-President Donald Trump, an ally of Bolsonaro.
The president of the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, accused the governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, an ally of Bolsonaro, of having liberated the area to allow the coup plotters to advance.
The demonstrators were in the offices of Lula’s collaborators and breaking objects as they passed inside the Planalto, according to CNN Brasil television.
The Secretary of Security of Brasilia is Anderson Torres, who was Bolsonaro’s Minister of Justice.
Images of the attack on Congress
This absurd attempt to import the will by force will not prevail. The Government of the Federal District affirms that there will be reinforcements. And the forces that we have are waiting. I am at the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice.
— Flávio Dino ?? (@FlavioDino) January 8, 2023
Cadê or Minister of Defense what is normal?
Olha there.
RADICAIS Bolsonarists who proclaim the MILITARY COUP are trying to invade the NATIONAL CONGRESS.
#bolsonarism #Coup pic.twitter.com/gxAUQoABn3—Joice Hasselmann (@joicehasselmann) January 8, 2023
What happened in Brazil, in institutional terms, is more serious than what happened in the Capitol: the Bolsonaristas also invaded the Planalto Palace, that is, the headquarters of the Executive, in this way. It is as if Trumpism had stormed the White House with police collusion. pic.twitter.com/RrNtmK5Clo
— Juan Manuel Karg (@jmkarg) January 8, 2023
The passivity of the police
Military police of the Federal District being escorted and applauded by Jair Bolsonaro’s coup Bolsonaro supporters for the demonstration. pic.twitter.com/csSU5YXH9k
—William DeLucca (@delucca) January 8, 2023
first repercussions
All my solidarity to @LulaOficial and the people of Brazil. Fascism decides to strike.
The rights have not been able to maintain the pact of non-violence.
It is urgent time for the OAS meeting if it wants to continue to live as an institution and apply the democratic charter.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) January 8, 2023
Faced with the coup actions of the right in Brazil, we express our solidarity with @LulaOficial and we raise our voices in defense of Brazilian democracy.
– Santiago Cafiero (@SantiagoCafiero) January 8, 2023
