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Backers of ex-president occupy elements of the parliament constructing in capital, Brasilia, and in addition entered the Planalto presidential palace and Brazil’s Supreme Court.
(AFP)
Supporters of Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro have pushed by means of police barricades and stormed into the nationwide Congress constructing in a dramatic protest in opposition to President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration final week.
Social media footage on Sunday additionally confirmed rioters storming the close by Planalto presidential palace and Brazil’s Supreme Court in what was shortly unfolding as a critical episode of political unrest.
The space across the parliament constructing in Brasilia had been cordoned off by authorities.
But a whole bunch of Bolsonaro backers who refuse to simply accept Lula’s election victory broke by means of, marched up ramps and gathered on a roof of the modernist constructing, an AFP photographer witnessed.
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(AFP)
Reminiscent of US Capitol assault
In startling pictures uploaded to social media — and paying homage to the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol constructing by supporters of then-president Donald Trump, a Bolsonaro ally — a tide of individuals stormed the nationwide Congress, many waving Brazilian flags.
The constructing is the place Brazil’s Senate and Chamber of Deputies conducts its legislative business.
Protesters appeared on the enduring constructing’s roof, but additionally on a lot of its adjoining lawns and open areas, together with that of the close by Planalto palace.
Security forces used tear gasoline in an apparently failed effort to repel the demonstrators.
Bolsonaro, who was narrowly defeated by Lula within the second spherical of the presidential election on October 30, left Brazil on the finish of the 12 months and travelled to Florida, the US state the place Trump now resides.
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Source: AFP
