A few days before the inauguration of the president-elect, Inicio "Lula" da Silva, a plot by one of his opponents to carry out an attack on the international airport of the capital, Brasilia, was revealed.
President-elect "Lola", photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino
On Sunday, the police found a bomb attached to a fuel tank.
According to the police, the suspect tried to activate the charge and thus cause the fuel tank to explode and cause a lot of destruction, apparently in order to sow chaos and possibly even disrupt the preparations for the swearing-in that will take place on January 1.
He may have had other targets, perhaps even the president himself, as they found huge amounts of ammunition and five more ready-to-use charges in his apartment.
"We have never had bombs here in Brazil," said the local police chief.
The suspect, he said, is cooperating and even exposed other people in the terrorist cell.
The suspect is apparently one of the opponents of Lula, who previously served as president and now made a comeback following a tough fight for re-election after being cleared of corruption.
Lula, who is considered a successful campaigner mainly because of his roots as a member of the Keshet Yom family, succeeded in the second round of the presidential elections a few weeks ago to win thanks to his promise to promote a socialist welfare and environmental agenda, thereby ousting the incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, who is considered a right-wing populist and social conservative.
In recent weeks, the deniers of the elections tried to get the results reversed and even asked the army, which is considered a supporter of the current president, to intervene on the grounds that they were fakes.
But even though Bolsonaro also admitted that he would vacate his seat, they continue to demonstrate every day and even recently stormed the local police compound in the capital and set several cars on fire.
Bolsonaro, although as mentioned reluctantly admitted his defeat, did not go against his supporters and so far did not ask them to stop disrupting the orderly transfer of power in the fourth largest democracy.
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