(ANSA) - BRASILIA, DECEMBER 26 - In Brazil, the police arrested a man accused of planting explosives on a tanker to be detonated near the Brasilia airport to create "chaos" on the occasion of the inauguration, on January 1, of the president of left Luis Inacio Lula daSilva, recently elected in a vote contested by many supporters of outgoing right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro.
The alleged bomber was arrested after the tanker driver noticed the bomb.
The man arrested on Christmas day, the Brazilian police said in a press conference, is called George Washington de Oliveira Susa and is a right-wing extremist supporter of Bolsonaro.
He would also have tried to get the bomb, which however did not explode, the police specified.
He confessed that he wanted to "create chaos" to "prevent the establishment of communism in Brazil": the explosion of a couple of bombs, according to the alleged terrorist arrested, should have triggered chaos, causing a state of emergency which would have brought him into the field the military, who, according to the subversive plan, would have prevented or delayed the passage of power.
Oliveira said he developed the idea in November during a daily protest demonstration in Brasilia in front of the military command, calling for the army to intervene to prevent Lula from taking power.
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