VIDEO. The Brasilia attack "is the translation of a drift of Brazil during the last fifteen years"

Brazilian authorities have launched investigations into the attack on several official buildings on Sunday in Brasilia, the administrative capital of Brazil.

More than 300 supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro were arrested after entering and ransacking these buildings.

In all, they were several thousand to have gathered on the symbolic places of power in Brazil.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva denounced the work of "putschists".

For Pascal Drouhaud, historian, researcher at the Choiseul Institute and president of the France-Latin America association, this attack constitutes "an alert" for democracy "and Brazilian society".

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For his part, François-Michel Le Tourneau, research director at the CNRS, this attack is in particular the symptom of an increase in populism: “There is a part of the population who no longer believes in elections, and that is is a threat to democracy”.