Protesters set fire to a dozen vehicles and destroyed street furniture during the handing over of the presidential act to Lula
The presentation ceremony to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the diploma accrediting him as Brazil’s president-elect was disrupted on Monday evening – early yesterday morning in Spain – by serious acts of vandalism by followers of the outgoing president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro. While at the headquarters of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) the progressive leader was receiving the act in front of 300 guests, a mob of demonstrators set fire to eight vehicles, including five buses, in the streets of Brasilia. Demanding a coup to prevent the inauguration on January 1, the exalted also destroyed building facades, smashed road signs and burned garbage cans in the hotel zone where Lula was staying.
The security forces had to use tear gas to bring the situation under control. As a result, a 67-year-old person required medical attention. “The action of the military police was aimed at dispersing the demonstrators to prevent further escalation of the spirits,” said Brasilia’s public security secretariat.
The incidents arose around a police station following the arrest of an indigenous Bolsonaro ideologist. José Acácio Serere Xavante had been arrested by order of the Supreme Court and at the request of the prosecution on charges of inciting protests in the form of a coup.
The president of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, an ally of Bolsonaro, this Tuesday rejected “the violence” unleashed in Brasilia by radicals related to the president and asked for security to be strengthened. The president of the National Congress, Senator Rodrigo Pacheco, did the same.
Source: La Verdad
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