A video from one of the security cameras of the Brazilian Congress released in the last few hours shows how hundreds of
followers of Jair Bolsonaro forced their
way into that building and caused destruction while demanding military intervention to overthrow the new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. .
The images show how
they managed, by force and with sticks and iron bars, to break one of the access doors
.
With their faces covered to protect themselves from the gases and with shields, they entered the building located in Brasilia.
Before they had overcome a police barrier and climbed the ramp that allowed them to enter the property.
Another group advanced towards the Plaza of the Three Powers and also to the Planalto Palace and the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice.
The video was broadcast by the Brazilian
outlet O Globo
.
The followers of the now ex-Brazilian president also reached the Black Room, where various events are held and which serves as access to the Senate.
Bolsonaro's former Justice Minister arrested
Anderson Torres, Jair Bolsonaro's former Justice Minister and accused of being linked to the attempted coup against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was arrested in the last few hours.
Torres is accused of "alleged omission" by the authorities, since he was the Secretary of Security of the Federal District of Brasilia when thousands of radical Bolsonaristas, without much police resistance, assaulted the headquarters of Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidency last Sunday.
The former minister was arrested this Saturday morning by the Federal Police at the Brasilia international airport upon disembarking from Miami, where he was on vacation.
Arrested in a Military Police battalion, Torres gave an investigation this same Saturday, but the content of his statements will be kept under secrecy, according to the Federal Police.
The former minister assumed command of the security of the country's capital on January 2 and five days later, and without explanation, he went on vacation to the United States, so he was not in Brazil when the riots occurred.
In messages posted on social networks this week from the United States, Torres repudiated the attacks, alleged that there was a contingency plan in case of violent acts caused by the marches, and said that the document found at his residence was "leaked out of context, helping to feed fallacious narratives" against him.
Through the networks, the former minister also said that he would put himself in the hands of the authorities because he is "sure that the truth will prevail."
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