Over 400 arrests, governor of Brasilia removed

Over 400 people have already been arrested in the aftermath of the assault carried out by supporters of former Brazilian president

Jair Bolsonaro on the buildings of power in Brasilia, while work continues to identify those who participated in the attack.

Yesterday thousands of ex-President of Brazil's ultras stormed the buildings of the highest state institutions in Brasilia in a raid that recalled the one two years ago on Capitol Hill in Washington by Donald Trump fans.

A "vandal and fascist" attack against democratic institutions, said the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, visibly upset, assuring that the "terrorists" will be "punished in an exemplary way". 

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

: "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

at 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 Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered social media platforms Facebook,

Twitter and TikTok to block coup propaganda.

Furthermore, at the request of the Attorney General of the Union, it ordered telecommunications companies to keep logs of connection and geolocation of users present in Praça dos Três Poderes.

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. 

In Brasilia, meanwhile,

of the former president are camped who yesterday attacked and devastated Parliament, the seat of Government and the Supreme Court of Justice.

According to the online page of the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, the military blocked the way for agents who wanted to enter the area where the perpetrators of the tank attack are encamped.

Several police vehicles, the newspaper added, had arrived at the entrance to the area in front of the army headquarters, but were stopped.

It must be remembered that the army headquarters is located in the Urban Military Sector (MUS), an area of ​​exclusive military responsibility. 

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.

The Brazilian media report it.

"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.