“The coup leaders who promoted the destruction of public property in Brasilia are being identified and will be punished. Tomorrow we resume work on the Planalto Palace. Democracy always,” Lula tweeted. After the riots comes the hour of responsibility.
Shortly after the police took over the buildings invaded by hundreds of bolsonarios, 200 of whom were arrested, the Brazilian president went to the place to inspect the damage caused to the presidential palace, the Supreme Court and the Congress.
Traveling to the state of São Paulo at the time of the events, Lula, in power for a week for a third term of his political career at the helm of Brazil, lashed out at the “fascists” who took advantage of the lack of security “. .
The rioters “took advantage of the calm on Sunday (…) to do what they did,” Lula wrote again on Twitter, also pointing a finger at his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, who rejected “accusations” “without evidence.”
Security vulnerabilities at the center of investigations
At the scene, the area had been cordoned off by the authorities. But the Bolsonaristas, many dressed in the yellow jersey of the Seleção, the Brazilian soccer team, the symbol of which they appropriated, managed to break the security cordons and caused considerable damage to the three enormous palaces, treasures of modern architecture brimming with of works of art. Art.
The question of possible security breaches is now at the center of investigations. In another tweet, Lula lashed out at the actions of the federal police, accused of not having stopped the advance of the rioters.
“Those responsible for the security of the Federal District are the police of the Federal District, who did not watch over her,” he wrote, denouncing the “incompetence” and “bad faith” of the capital’s security forces.
The first head fell: the governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, close to Jair Bolsonaro, was suspended from office for 90 days. He will be investigated to determine his responsibility for the security violations, as announced by the Brazilian Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino.
Federal police escorted the rioters.
The images, widely disseminated on social networks, question the actions of the capital’s police at the time of the assault. In these videos, members of the police are filmed taking selfies in front of rioters or taking photos of themselves.
Other images show federal police officers talking calmly with Bolsonaristas, in the middle of an assault.
Stories of the meticulous organization for weeks by Bolsonaro supporters, who have gathered on social media, and in particular from encrypted messengers such as Telegram, which recalls the capture of the Capitol in Washington in January, are beginning to emerge in the Brazilian press. 2021.
Other images, associated with reconstructions of the rioters’ route by the Brazilian press, show the federal police escorting the rioters to the Plaza de los Tres Poderes, cradle of the three palaces that represent the executive, the judicial and the legislative.
According to Globo, many Bolsonaristas arrived by bus between Saturday and Sunday. The media reported 4,000 people who gathered in front of the Army headquarters before starting, around 2:00 p.m., the 8-kilometre journey that separates them from the Place des Trois Pouvoirs.
The yellow and green human mass appears escorted by the security forces of Brasilia, calmly. Shortly before 3 pm, the rioters broke through the roadblocks and entered Congress.
At the same time, another part of the crowd invaded the Planalto Palace, the presidential residence. A few minutes later, the Supreme Court will be looted in turn. The rioters will stay around four hours in the three buildings, before being evicted by riot police.
Flavio Dino has already announced that another investigation will be opened to determine who financed the hundreds of buses that transported supporters of Jair Bolsonaro to Brasilia. For his part, Jair Bolsonaro is still in the United States, and more specifically in Florida, where his friend Donald Trump lives. Targeted by several investigations by the Supreme Court, however, he may have to leave the United States, as US lawmakers spoke out Sunday night in favor of his removal.
Source: BFM TV
