The Single Federation of Petroleum Workers (FUP) warned today about possible attacks on the refineries of the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, after the invasions of the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
“These possible acts could endanger the assets of Petrobras, the physical integrity of the workers of these units, as well as the environment of those assets and compromise the fuel supply to the population,” warns the FUP.
“In this sense, we understand that it is essential that the company prepare and activate all the necessary means to guarantee the safety of the workers and the company’s productive units and the supply of the markets,” he added, recalling the circulation of messages . on social networks in which protesters indicate that they want to stop the supply of fuel to the population.
Bolsonaro supporters are mobilizing, through social media, attacks on Petrobras refineries across the country.
In a statement, the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, indicated that, “together with the related entities, it has guaranteed the normality of the national fuel supply and the proper functioning of the refineries, terminals and distribution bases.”
Silveira promised to closely monitor the situation of the protests in these infrastructures and guarantee the supply of fuel.
The president of the Workers’ Party also accused the protesters of having blocked access to the Presidente Getúlio Vargas Refinery (Repar) in Araucária, Curitiba, in the state of Paraná (south), pointing to videos posted on social networks.
“The bandits are now trying to stop the refineries from distributing fuel. This video is of criminals there in Paraná, who are in charge of Repar, in Araucária. Will the state government allow it?” Gleisi Hoffmann wrote on the social network. Twitter.
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, decreed federal intervention in Brasilia after hundreds of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded and destroyed the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Federal Supreme Court, headquarters of the powers legislative, executive and judicial.
The demonstrators, who broke the police protection barriers, called for military intervention to overthrow Lula da Silva, a week after his inauguration.
The Military Police managed, however, to regain control of the STF headquarters and the Brazilian head of state promised that all those responsible for the invasions would be punished.
Former President Jair Bolsonaro today distanced himself from the invasions of public buildings in Brasilia carried out on Sunday by his supporters and repudiated the accusations of having encouraged the attacks.
“Peaceful demonstrations, in the form of the law, are part of democracy. However, the depredations and invasions of public buildings such as those that occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, are beyond the rule, ”wrote Jair Bolsonaro, on his official Twitter account.
In three successive ‘posts’, Jair Bolsonaro spoke about the occupations carried out in the Brazilian capital and rejected the accusations made by his successor, Lula da Silva, who blamed him for inciting the attacks on Sunday at the headquarters of the legislative, judicial and executive. .
“I repudiate the accusations, without evidence, that the current head of the Executive of Brazil attributed to me,” Bolsonaro wrote.
In a statement shortly after the attacks in which federal intervention was decreed in Brasilia, the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, today accused Bolsonaro of being a genocide, for provoking and encouraging violent invasions of public buildings this Sunday in Brasilia, capital of the country
“This genocide not only caused this, it not only stimulated it, but, who knows, it also continues to stimulate it through social networks,” said Lula da Silva, referring to Bolsonaro who is in Orlando, in the United States.
Source: TSF
