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Brazil: images of chaos and damage after the reissue of the "Capitol" in Brasilia

2023-01-09T06:37:04.056Z


IN PICTURES – On Sunday, the Congress, but also the Supreme Court and the presidential palace were invaded by Bolsonarist demonstrators. If calm has been restored, the damage is considerable.


The center of power in Brasilia was plunged into chaos.

Brazilian police evacuated Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace, more than four hours after hundreds of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed on Sunday, recalling the invasion of the Capitol in Washington in January 2021.

The impressive images of the crowd entering the Congress.

EVARISTO SA / AFP

Security was quickly overtaken by the crowd.

STRINGER / REUTERS

The area had however been cordoned off by the authorities, but the Bolsonarists managed to break the security cordons.

Bolsonarists have already been demonstrating in front of military barracks since the narrow defeat of the outgoing far-right president on October 30.

They demanded the intervention of the army to prevent Lula from returning to power for a third term, after those from 2003 to 2010. Some of them also blocked main roads for more than a week after the election.

Police first outdated

The police initially tried, in vain, to repel the demonstrators with tear gas.

A mounted police officer was unhorsed and then knocked to the ground by assailants armed with sticks.

The police try to push back the demonstrators.

ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS

The police initially struggled to disperse the rioters.

STRINGER / REUTERS

Mounted police officers in the middle of the demonstrators.

SERGIO LIMA / AFP

A police vehicle was also pushed into the large fountain in front of Congress by protesters.

A police car one wheel through water, in front of Congress.

SERGIO LIMA / AFP

A local press union reported the attack on five journalists.

Among them, an AFP photographer was beaten and had all his equipment stolen.

Finally, the security forces gradually regained control of the situation in the evening, with water cannons keeping the demonstrators at a distance.

Protester arrested outside Congress.

UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS

The police eventually took over and the demonstrators dispersed.

UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS

According to several Brazilian media, at least 150 bolsonarists, dressed in yellow and green, have been arrested.

Television images showed them descending in single file, hands behind their backs, down the ramp of the presidential palace in Planalto, flanked by police.

On other images, we can see a bus full of demonstrators arrested leaving in the direction of a police station.

Jair Bolsonaro supporters are taken to the police station.

AMANDA PEROBELLI / REUTERS

Protesters on the ground after tear gas was fired.

UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS

Considerable damage

On social networks, videos have circulated showing ransacked offices of parliamentarians.

A protester sat in the seat of the President of the Senate, a startling mimicry of pro-Trump protesters in the US Congress two years ago.

Supreme Court offices ransacked by protesters.

GEORGE MARQUES / REUTERS

The interior of the presidential palace was also vandalized.

ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS

The damage is considerable, in these buildings which are treasures of modern architecture and are full of works of art.

Paintings of inestimable value were damaged, including

The mulattoes

, by the modernist painter Di Cavalcanti, exhibited in the Presidential Palace and pierced with several holes, according to photos circulating on social networks.

At nightfall, the judicial police could only see the damage.

AMANDA PEROBELLI / REUTERS

The devastated interior of Congress.

ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS

Source: lefigaro

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