President-elect Lula’s safety will be guaranteed by a complete mobilization of the police, his team assured on Tuesday, five days before his inauguration and after an attempted bomb attack was discovered in the Brazilian capital.
On Sunday “the police forces of the Federal District (of Brasilia) will be 100% mobilized to guarantee the security not only of the president, but also of the foreign delegations and the population,” Flavio Dino, his future minister of Condition. Public security.
fear of attack
The plans for the ceremonies “have not been modified,” continued the minister, when asked about the possibility that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva descends on the Esplanade of the Ministries in a closed car instead of the traditional Rolls Royce convertible. The decision “will be made in due course”, however, stated Flavio Dino, during a press conference attended by the future defense minister and the governor of Brasilia, in charge of the local police.
The induction ceremony will take place in a “safe and peaceful” manner, added Flavio Dino, as Brasilia prepares to receive hundreds of thousands of people. Numerous left-wing supporters of the president-elect have expressed their fear of riots or attacks on social media.
A fear redoubled by the discovery, last Saturday, of an explosive device in a tanker truck near the Brasilia airport. Activated, device did not explode. L’homme qui l’avait déposé a été arrêté et voulait, according to his declarations to the police published by the local press, “provoquer le chaos” et “l’intervention des forces armées” afin d ‘”empêcher l’établissement du communism in Brazil”. An impressive number of weapons were found in this supporter of the outgoing far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Towards a departure from Bolsonaro to the United States?
Radical Bolsonaristas blocked roads and demonstrated in front of barracks across the country after Lula’s narrow victory in the Oct. 30 election. Two months later, there are still demonstrations, in front of certain barracks, of the Bolsonaro army who do not recognize Lula’s victory and demand military intervention. Flavio Dino assured that “small terrorist or extremist groups” would not be enough to undermine Brazilian democracy.
Jair Bolsonaro, who has never congratulated Lula, has barely appeared in public since his defeat in the presidential election. He did not condemn various incidents caused by his followers. It is unlikely that he will gird Lula with the presidential sash on January 1, as institutional tradition dictates.
And the Brazilian media speculated that the outgoing president – officially in office until December 31 – might leave for the United States on Wednesday, the outlet reported. wow even assuring that Jair Bolsonaro had confided in relatives his desire to stay “for a month or two” in Florida, and more precisely in Mar-a-Lago, where former US President Donlad Trump, with whom he remained close, has a luxury hotel . in addition to his personal property.
Source: BFM TV
