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Thousands of Bolsonaristas invaded the Planalto, Congress and the Court

The invasion of Congress is a serious attack on democracy in Latin America. (AFP photo)

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.

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The passivity of the police

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