🇧🇷 Did fans attack a bus carrying Brazil's national football team after the 2022 World Cup? No -- the video was taken in 2018, when protesters threw objects at a vehicle they erroneously thought was carrying a former president
Screenshot from a 2018 YouTube video taken December 21, 2022Screenshot from a 2018 YouTube video taken December 21, 2022
But the vehicle was not carrying Lula or members of his campaign -- it was a bus that travels from Rio de Janeiro toin Parana, according to a statement the state's branch of the Brazilian Federal Highway Police sent to AFP, citing a police report. The incident took place in the municipality Sao Miguel do Iguacu on March 26, 2018.
"The bus they were in was stoned by people who were there to protest against the presence of the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva," the agency said in the statement, translated into English from Portuguese."Such stoning broke windows on the left side, and eggs and tomatoes were thrown into the vehicle, putting the lives of the driver and passengers at risk."at the time that the bus was occupied by ordinary citizens.
-- and video and photos captured by AFP -- show the players riding a different yellow and green bus while in Qatar. Team Brazil arrive at the Westin Doha Hotel & Spa in Doha on November 19, 2022 ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament
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