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Brazil |  A presidential palace opened to the rioters from the inside, Lula claims

Brazil | A presidential palace opened to the rioters from the inside, Lula claims

(Brasilia) The Brazilian government has been tightening its grip on the participants, organizers, and financiers of Sunday’s riots in Brasilia, prompting Lula to “deeply reorganize” his security at the presidential palace.


“I am convinced that the door to Planalto Palace was opened so that people could enter, because no door was broken,” the leftist leader said Thursday during his first breakfast with reporters since his arrival.Verse January.

“It means someone facilitated their entry here,” insisted Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “How can I have someone at my office door who can shoot me?” Asked.

More than 4,000 supporters of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who spurned his late October electoral defeat to Lula, wreaked havoc in the capital on Sunday, invading and looting the presidential palace, supreme court and congress.

Photo by Sergio Lima, AFP

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said, “I am convinced that the gates of the Planalto Palace have been opened for people to enter, because no door has been broken.”

Some 2,000 people have been arrested and more than 1,100 jailed after being questioned, according to the latest report from the authorities.

“The pro-Bolsonaro movement is under pressure and does not have the degree of organization necessary to counterattack,” said sociologist Geraldo Montero, co-author of a book on Bolsonaroism.

And the noose continues to tighten, as many rioters have been identified through surveillance cameras, press photos or selfies they have posted on social media.

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But the authorities’ priority now is to punish the networks that worked behind the scenes to fund and organize the insurgency.

1.2 million euros in damages

On Thursday, the Union Attorney General’s Office (AGU), which defends the interests of the federal state, asked the courts of Brasilia to freeze 6.5 million reais (about 1.2 million euros) from 52 people and seven companies accused of crimes. Having financed the transportation of rioters in a hundred buses coming from all over the country on Saturday night.

According to many Brazilian media, a large number of alleged financiers are linked to the agribusiness sector, which is the loyal support of Jair Bolsonaro.

The national heritage was severely damaged, offices looted and works of art destroyed.

For the two houses of Congress alone, these amounts to more than 1 million euros, according to the first estimates announced by the government.

The Brazilian Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage presented its first damage assessment report on Thursday, including a urine-soaked rug and a tapestry by Brazilian artist Roberto Pearl Marx.

« A partir de maintenant, we allons être plus durs, parce que ce que qui s’est passé (ce) week-end ne doit pas se reproduire », a declaré Lula, annonçant également « un remaniement » du personnel travaillant for the compte de Presidency.

“The palace was filled with military personnel loyal to Bolsonaro,” he said, and he intended to replace them with “professional civil servants, preferably civilians.”

Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ordered the arrests of Fabio Augusto, chief of the military police in Brasilia, and Anderson Torres, the far-right leader’s former justice minister and security minister in the capital at the time of the riots.

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Calls for evacuation

Mr. Torres is expected to arrive in Brazil on Friday from the United States. Evidence must be increased against him, after the police found in his home a proposal for a decree aimed at interfering with the Supreme Electoral Court and thus reversing the outcome of the presidential elections in October.

Mr. Torres claimed that the record was published “out of context” and pleaded not guilty to these documents.

Lula doubled his meetings with his ministers on Thursday, in apparent concern that matters would return to normal after the shock of this unprecedented attack on Brazilian democracy since the establishment of the military dictatorship (1964-1985).

In the United States, the elected Democrats called on President Joe Biden to cancel the visa of the former Brazilian president, who is in Florida (south), refusing that the United States serve as a refuge for the former leader.

“We must not allow Mr. Bolsonaro or any other former Brazilian official to find refuge in the United States in order to escape justice for any possible crime committed during his term of office,” these 41 elected officials write in an open letter to President Biden to the public Thursday.

They also called on the US government to “cooperate fully with any investigation by the Brazilian government” and to check the legal status in the US of the former president, who arrived on US soil as head of state.

His stay in Florida puts the United States in a relatively awkward light, particularly in reference to the former hosts of the controversial Latin American leaders.

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Asked on Wednesday, the head of US diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, said the US had not received any request from Brazil regarding Jair Bolsonaro, but would process such a request “quickly.”