What are we seeing in Brazil? Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded this Sunday, January 8, the Presidential Palace of Planalto, as well as the Congress and the Supreme Court, the main places of power in Brasilia, causing a lot of damage, according to images circulating. on social networks.
Earlier in the day, clashes erupted between police and bolsonarists massed outside Congress, with Brazilian police using tear gas canisters to try to repel hundreds of supporters of the far-right ex-president who invaded outside. of Congress in Brasilia, a week after the inauguration of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, noted an AFP photographer.
Impressive images, reminiscent of the invasion of the Capitol
The area around the Congress had been cordoned off by the authorities, but the Bolsonarists who refuse to accept the election of Lula managed to break the security cordons and several dozen of them managed to climb the ramp of this building with modern architecture to occupy the roof.
The impressive images, reminiscent of the invasion of the Capitol in the United States, show a real human tide flowing towards Congress. This brings together in the same building the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Demonstrators appeared on the roof, but also on all the adjoining lawns, including that of the presidential palace of Planalto. Jair Bolsonaro, who was narrowly beaten by Lula in the second round of the presidential election on October 30, left Brazil at the end of the year to join the United States.
A push?
In France, the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon immediately qualified the events as an attempt to “Trump-style putsch against the new left-wing president Lula”.
