Late Sunday evening, Brazil’s Supreme Court fired the governor of the capital Brasilia for 90 days due to insecurity in the capital after thousands of supporters of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings. Supreme Court Justice Alexander de Moraes ordered the social networks Facebook, Twitter and TikTok to prevent propaganda for the coup.
Brazilian authorities have launched an investigation into the worst attack on the country’s institutions in 40 years, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed to bring those responsible for the unrest to justice.
On Sunday, tens of thousands of demonstrators stormed the Supreme Court, Congress and the presidential palace, breaking windows, overturning furniture, destroying art and stealing the country’s original 1988 constitution. Weapons were also seized from the president’s office. security.
Leftist President Lula, who took office on January 1, said the local police, who report to Brazilian Governor Ibáñez Rocha, a former ally of Bolsonaro, had done nothing to stop the protesters from advancing.
Lula issued a decree on the intervention of federal public security agencies in the capital and promised to punish the leaders of the “fascist” attack, as he put it, the purpose of which was to provoke a military coup capable of returning Bolsonaro to power.
“Everyone who did this will be found and punished,” Lula told reporters from the state of São Paulo.
Lula accused Bolsonaro of angering his supporters following a campaign of electoral fraud allegations after the end of his rule.
From Florida, where he arrived 48 hours before the end of his presidential term, Bolsonaro denied the allegations. He tweeted that peaceful demonstrations are democratic and storming government buildings is a violation.
