Probe launched after supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro attack state institutions
Supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Brasilia on January 8. Picture: REUTERS/ADRIANO MACHADO
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who took office on January 1 after a narrow October election win, promised to bring those responsible to justice. Demonstrators broke windows and furniture, destroyed art work and stole the original 1988 constitution. Guns were seized from a presidential security office.
From Florida, where Bolsonaro flew 48 hours before his term ended, the former president rejected the accusation. He said on Twitter that peaceful demonstrations were democratic but the invasion of government buildings “crossed the line”. “The violent attacks on democratic institutions are an attack on democracy that cannot be tolerated,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned any bid to undermine the peaceful transfer of power. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia condemned “in the strongest terms” the actions of those who instigated the disorder.
The occupation of the government buildings had been planned for at least two weeks by Bolsonaro’s supporters in groups on social media messaging platforms such as Telegram and Twitter, yet there was no move by security forces to prevent the attack, called by one group “the seizure of power by the people”.
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