“This senseless attempt to impose the will by force will not prevail,” new Justice Minister Flavo Dino warned on Twitter, adding, “There are going to be reinforcements.” In Brazil, radical Bolsonarists invaded the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto, this Sunday, January 8, one week after the inauguration of leftist President Lula, whose victory against Jair they never recognized. Bolsonaro.
The supporters of the former president, who arrived en masse, took the security forces by surprise, noted an AFP photographer. Impressive images, reminiscent of the invasion of the Capitol in the United States on January 6, 2021, show on social networks a real human tide of demonstrators dressed in yellow and green storming the places of power in Brasilia.
The area near the Three Powers Square, where the three official buildings stand side by side, had however been cordoned off by the authorities, but the Bolsonarists managed to break the security cordons. Several dozen of them managed to climb the ramp of this building with modern architecture to occupy the roof.
Jair Bolsonaro, who never congratulated Lula on his election and shunned his investiture, left Brazil two days before the end of his term. He is currently in Florida, USA.