The roadblocks promoted by supporters of the former president continue today in Brazil
, Jair Bolsonaro, after yesterday's assault on the palaces of power in Brasilia: in addition to the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso - the hardest hit by the protests last night - there are also blocks on the roads and highways of São Paulo, the state most important in the country.
Here a group of activists blocked the Marginal Tieté, one of the main avenues of the São Paulo megalopolis, where they set fire to rubbish and tires, causing a traffic jam of several blocks, Rede Globo reported.
Furthermore, according to the Federal Traffic Police, there are total or partial roadblocks in other regions, especially in the southern state of Santa Catarina.
Demonstrations are also allegedly taking place in front of some Petrobras refineries.
About 1,200 people were arrested
in the camp set up over two months ago in front of the army headquarters in Brasilia: this was announced by GloboNews, specifying that those arrested would be linked to the riots that broke out yesterday.
According to the portal, the arrests were carried out by the federal police, in compliance with yesterday's decree by the President of the Republic, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Those arrested were taken to the federal police headquarters in at least 40 buses. A "vandal and fascist" attack against democratic institutions, said the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, visibly upset, assuring that the "terrorists" they will be "punished in an exemplary way".
At least 46 people injured,
and two who underwent emergency intervention following the riots following the assault.
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However, his predecessor Bolsonaro condemned what happened: "Peaceful demonstrations, according to the law, are part of democracy. The looting and invasions of public buildings such as those of today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, are illegal,” he said.
And he rejected the accusations, according to him without proof, attributed to him by the new president Inacio Lula da Silva: "Throughout my mandate - he underlined - I have always been within the perimeter of the Constitution, respecting and defending the laws, democracy, transparency and our sacred freedom".
And while US President Joe Biden has condemned what he calls "the assault on democracy and the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil", assuring Washington's full support, the Brazilian head of state returned to Brasilia, where he went to ascertain the looting of the Presidential Palace and the Supreme Court by Bolsonaro supporters.
Inacio Lula da Silva, in office for just a week, earlier said in a speech from the state of São Paulo that his far-right predecessor had "encouraged" "fascist vandals" to invade places of power in the capital.
Firm condemnation of an 'assault on democracy in Brazil' came from
the president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen
: "It is a great concern for all of us, defenders of democracy", she wrote on Twitter.
"My full support to President Lula, who was elected freely and fairly."
This morning
the Brazilian authorities began assessing the extensive damage
to the Presidential Palace, Congress and the Supreme Court of Brasilia after yesterday's assault by supporters of the former president.
After several hours of chaos, police regained control of buildings overrun by hundreds of anti-Lula protesters and arrested hundreds of people, according to Justice and Security Minister Flavio Dino.
The area had been cordoned off by the authorities.
But the Bolsonarists, many of them dressed in the yellow jerseys of the Brazilian soccer team, a symbol that the Bolsonarists have appropriated, managed to break through the security cordons.
They have caused considerable damage.
Priceless paintings were damaged, according to photos circulating on social networks.
And Reuters reports that protesters who broke into the Supreme Court buildings, Congressional buildings and the Presidential Palace broke windows, overturned furniture, destroyed works of art, stole the original 1988 Constitution. Weapons were taken. from a security office of the president.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and TikTok to block coup propaganda.
Furthermore, at the request of the Attorney General of the Union, he ordered telecommunications companies to keep logs of connection and geolocation of users present in Praça dos Três Poderes.
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Protesters overnight blocked highways and federal roads
in at least four states.
The state of Mato Grosso is the hardest hit by protests by supporters of former President Bolsonaro.
The online site of Folha de S.Paulo reports it.
The police arrived at the camp where supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro have been protesting for over sixty days
and where access was blocked yesterday by the army.
Cnn Brasil reports it.
"Ricardo Cappelli, designated by President Lula as responsible for the intervention of the federal government in the district of Brasilia, is giving continuity to the work started yesterday, in relation to the terrorist acts", said the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino (PSB), on Twitter.
Federal Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the removal of the governor
of the Federal District of Brasilia Ibaneis Rocha for a period of 90 days.
The decision came after the invasion of the buildings of the Congress, the Federal Court and the Palácio do Planalto, seat of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil.
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"The violent escalation of criminal acts is a circumstance that can only occur with the consent, and even effective participation, of the relevant public safety and intelligence authorities," Moraes said.
Alexandre de Moraes said that the governor of the Federal District ignored all the requests made by various authorities to strengthen security.
"Deceptively omissive conduct by Governor Ibaneis Rocha who not only made public statements defending a bogus 'free political demonstration in Brasilia' - even though all the networks knew that attacks would be made on institutions and their members - but also ignored all appeals from the authorities to carry out a security plan similar to those implemented in the last two years on September 7, in particular, with a ban on terrorist criminals from entering the esplanade of the Ministries, having released wide access", he said.
The security forces of Brasilia informed Governor Ibaneis Rocha yesterday that the "peaceful" and "organized" entrance to the esplanade of the ministries had been "negotiated" with supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro shortly before the assault.
"All calm", begins the audio accessed by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, in which the number two of the secretary of security, Fernando de Sousa Oliveira, intervenes.
"We have negotiated so that they descend in a peaceful, organized, accompanied way. Agreed," says Oliveira.
"It's a very calm, very pleasant environment. A very soft, totally peaceful demonstration," Oliveira stressed in his last part to Rocha.