A group of coup plotters overcame a police barrier and climbed the ramp that gives access to the roof of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate buildings.
The Bolsonaristas invaded the Planalto Palace, the National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court, in Brasilia, practically without resistance from the police in the federal capital.
Lula was in Araraquara, in the interior of São Paulo, on a visit scheduled for Friday to see disaster areas caused by the rains, while some protesters reached the door of the Planalto Palace, the seat of government, according to what the channel showed GloboNews.
The demonstrators broke windows, security cameras, cabinets and offices in the Planalto and the STF. They arrived in caravans from all over the country, while Bolsonaro is in Orlando, United States, where he traveled after leaving power.
“These undemocratic acts must suffer the rigor of the law,” said the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco.
The situation was compared to the invasion of the Capitol, the United States Congress, in January 2020 to ignore the electoral defeat of then-President Donald Trump, an ally of Bolsonaro.
The president of the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmannaccused the governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rochaan ally of Bolsonaro, for having liberated the area to allow the advance of the coup leaders.
The demonstrators were in the offices of Lula’s collaborators and breaking objects as they passed inside the Planalto, according to the television CNN Brazil.
