(Brasilia) Hundreds of supporters of the far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in Brasilia on Sunday, causing extensive damage, according to images broadcast on social networks .
“This absurd attempt to impose the will by force will not prevail,” warned the new Minister of Justice Flavo Dino, on Twitter, adding: “there will be reinforcements”.
The radical Bolsonarists who arrived en masse took the security forces by surprise, a week after the inauguration of leftist President Lula, whose victory against Jair Bolsonaro in the October presidential election they never recognized, noted a photographer from AFP.
Impressive images, reminiscent of the invasion of the Capitol in the United States, show on social networks a veritable human tide of protesters dressed in yellow and green storming the places of power in Brasilia.
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PHOTO EVARISTO SA, FRANCE PRESS AGENCY
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in front of the Planalto Presidential Palace, which houses the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate in Brasilia
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PHOTO EVARISTO SA, FRANCE PRESS AGENCY
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro crossed the fences and security cordons to invest the various areas adjacent to the Congress
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The area near the Three Powers Square, where the Planalto Presidential Palace, the Supreme Court and the Congress meet, had however been cordoned off by the authorities, but the Bolsonarists managed to break the security cordons.
Jair Bolsonaro, who never congratulated Lula on his election and shunned his inauguration, left Brazil two days before the end of his mandate and is in Florida, United States.