Early on Monday there were reports that Ibaneis Rocha, the governor of the federal district of Brasília, may temporarily leave his post. The reason must be that he is not considered to have succeeded in preventing Sunday’s events.
Even the police on site receive criticism from a Brazilian journalist with whom the BBC has been in contact.
Carlos Alexandre de Souza, political editor of the newspaper Correio Braziliense, believes that the police at the beginning of the storming were “very patient” and “not very aggressive”.
Policemen reportedly tried to keep the crowds away from the government buildings, but he thinks it took too long for the local police to get the situation under control.
Must have taken selfies
Images are being circulated on social media that are supposed to show police officers from the scene with mobile phones in their hands during the storming, something that, among others, Aftonbladet reported on.
In the images, among other things, police officers are to be seen filming their colleagues, posing with tear gas canisters. In one picture, a policeman is seen taking pictures while the protesters rushed from across the lawn on their way to the government building.
Brazil’s president rages against this information:
– Incompetence, malice or malice. The policemen who participated in this will not go unpunished and they will not be part of Brazil’s police force, because they have no trust with the Brazilian people, says Lula da Silva to the newspaper Globo.
“Camps full of terrorists”
Alexandre de Moraes, who is a judge in the country’s highest court, says that the military has been ordered to demolish the camps that Bolsonaro supporters have built around throughout Brazil:
– Absolutely nothing justifies the existence of camps full of terrorists, sponsored by various financiers and with the complacency of civilian and military authorities in total subversion.
The deadline for the demolitions is 24 hours and the police have been ordered to continue arresting protesters.