The Brazilian military last Sunday prevented the arrest of the Bolsonarist devastators, according to a report published online by the Washington Post, which cites two anonymous witnesses.
"You will not arrest people here," the senior commander of the Brazilian army, General Júlio César de Arruda, told the new Justice Minister Flávio Dino, according to two officials present," the newspaper reported.
According to the reconstruction of the US newspaper, "when senior officials of the Lula administration arrived at the army headquarters on Sunday night with the aim of guaranteeing the detention of the insurgents in the camp, they found themselves facing tanks and three lines of military".
That protective act, "which Lula administration officials say gave hundreds of supporters time to escape arrest, is one of several indications of a troubling pattern that authorities are now investigating as evidence of alleged collusion between military and police officials and the thousands of rioters who invaded institutions".
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