Brazil Protests: Lula Vows to Punish 'Neo-Fascists' After Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Congress

[Judi Lynn]

President Lula tours scene of riot and orders federal government to take control of policing in capital Brasília as extremists refuse to accept his presidency

By Tom Phillips, Andrew Downie January 9, 2023



Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has toured the wreckage of his presidential palace after an extraordinary day of political violence in the capital, Brasília, saw thousands of far-right extremists run riot through the country’s democratic institutions in a failed attempt to overthrow his week-old government.

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“It was much worse than what happened at the Capitol,” the former supreme court judge Marco Aurélio Mello told the O Globo newspaper on Sunday night after police made at least 300 arrests relating to the attack.

Shocking video footage showed pro-Bolsonaro militants sprinting up the ramp into the Palácio do Planalto, the presidential offices, roaming the building’s corridors and vandalising the nearby supreme court, whose windows had been smashed.

Videos posted on social media showed fires burning inside the congress building. Furniture was broken and tossed around, objects were reportedly stolen in the presidential palace and the supreme court, and in some places sprinklers appeared to be dousing chambers.

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[SheltieLover]

1. Please request bolsinaro & santos be sent back to face charges.

[usonian]

2. This is just the rehersal if thugs in the U.S.AND THEIR LEADERS are not held accountable.

Swap you Lula for you know who (not Biden, you know the one)