Brasilia.- The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, removed forty military personnel stationed at the presidential residence, after promising a “deep review” of the personnel following the January 8 attacks in Brasilia.
The measure was published this Tuesday in the official newspaper of the union and affects officials attached to the coordination of the Alvorada Palace, the official address of the heads of state.
The decision follows on from an announcement by the 77-year-old left-wing president, who last week expressed distrust of some soldiers who perform auxiliary functions at government headquarters.
Lula, who defeated the far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential elections in October, said at the time that he was convinced that there was internal complicity and that of members of the security forces in the assault on official buildings in Brasilia exactly on the day that he was one week after returning to the can.
On January 8, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded and razed the Planalto Palace (seat of the presidency), Congress and the Supreme Court, seeking the fall of Lula. They destroyed part of the infrastructure, vandalized the halls of power and damaged priceless works of art.
“Someone made it easier for them to enter here,” the President asserted in reference to the excesses in Planalto.
The leader of the left, who made a spectacular political comeback after years overshadowed by a corruption scandal, then stressed that the review of the work team will seek to privilege “career officials, preferably civilians.”
“Someone suspected of being a radical Bolsonaro cannot remain in here,” he said.
Bolsonaro, in the United States since before the end of his term, denies any connection to the violent acts, but is being investigated by the Brazilian authorities on suspicion of having instigated the assault on the political heart of Brazil.
“I regret what happened on the 8th,” the former president told some supporters in a video released Monday by the Brazilian media.
