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For: The opinion Updated 08 Jan 2023, 1:50 pm EST
Hundreds of followers of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded the headquarters of the National Congress this Sunday in a demonstration calling for a military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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The governor of the DF must be publicly charged. Any military gives active that publicly supporting isso should be punished. The defense minister, José Múcio, must have a clear and explicit position against the coup.
Without conciliation with criminals and Bolsonaristas. pic.twitter.com/4xNQt6NA6J
— Jones Manoel – YouTube: Jones Manoel (@jonesmanoel_PE) January 8, 2023
The group, which defends coup theses, overcame a police barrier and climbed the ramp that gives access to the roof of the buildings of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
The extremists, mostly wearing yellow and green shirts and Brazilian flags, also attacked some vehicles of the Legislative Police, which provides security for Congress.
They also destroyed protective barriers and armed with sticks they confronted the agents who tried to contain, without success, the entrance of the demonstrators.
Lula, who assumed the Presidency of Brazil on January 1, is traveling this weekend in the city of Araraquara, in Sao Paulo.
Hundreds of radical Bolsonaristas They are camped in front of the Army Headquarters, in Brasiliasince the day after the elections on October 30, in which Lula defeated Bolsonaro.
With information from Efe.
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