Breaking by way of safety boundaries within the capital of Brazil, supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro broke invaded Congress, the supreme court docket and the presidential palace as seen in movies broadly shared on social media. The assault passed off when Brazil’s present president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wasn’t within the palace, AFP reported including that the police used pepper spray to regulate the protesters.
In an occasion just like the January 6, 2021, invasion of the US Capitol, crowds had been seen coming into the Brazilian congress and different branches of presidency.
Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters have lengthy disputed the results of the October election through which leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat Bolsonaro. Even the previous president has repeatedly questioned, with out proof, the credibility of the nation’s voting system.
This comes as Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida in late December whereas Lula was in Sao Paulo for the weekend and on a visit to the inside of the state, Reuters reported.