General Marco Edson Goncalves Dias submits his resignation after footage emerges exhibiting him directing pro-Bolsonaro rioters in January 8 assault on authorities buildings in capital Brasilia.
(Reuters Archive)
One of Brazil’s prime nationwide safety officers has resigned after the disclosure of movies of him on the scene of the January 8 assaults on the capital Brasilia.
General Marco Edson Goncalves Dias, head of the Institutional Security Bureau [GSI], submitted his resignation on Wednesday after CNN Brasil broadcast photos from safety cameras exhibiting Goncalves Dias on the Planalto Palace, one of many federal buildings ransacked by protesters earlier this yr.
The protesters had been in search of to revive defeated former president Jair Bolsonaro to energy, simply days after he left workplace.
In the clips launched by CNN Brasil, Goncalves Dias is seen transferring by way of the corridors of the constructing — residence to the official workplace of the president — interacting with protesters and apparently “showing them the exit.”
Videos additionally confirmed a minimum of two GSI officers shaking fingers and giving water bottles to the protesters, who stormed federal buildings in a failed and largely disorganised bid to overthrow the federal government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who succeeded Bolsonaro.
Goncalves Dias disputed CNN Brasil’s interpretation of the movies.
“I entered the palace after it was raided and was removing people from the third and fourth floors so that the arrests could take place on the second floor,” he informed the GloboNews tv channel.
He mentioned the movies of the troopers distributing water had been taken out of context.
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Rampage aftermath
Thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the halls of energy in Brasilia in January, every week after Lula took workplace.
In scenes harking back to the January 6, 2021 riots in Washington by supporters of ex-president Donald Trump — Bolsonaro’s political position mannequin — they trashed workplaces, vandalised artworks and known as for the army to intervene to oust Lula.
In the aftermath of the assault, members of the army have been investigated for the dealing with of safety in Brasilia on January 8, and a few have been arrested.
Ahead of the October 30 election, the ex-president trotted out what consultants say had been baseless claims of election fraud, however has denied involvement within the planning of the assaults.
More than 1,800 individuals had been arrested over the occasions of January 8.
They embrace Bolsonaro’s former justice minister Anderson Torres, who was Brasilia’s public safety chief on the time of the riots.
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