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Assault on power in Brazil: "Here you will not arrest anyone", they reveal that the military facilitated the escape of the attackers

2023-01-15T22:15:23.938Z


The Washington Post showed that senior Lula officials arrived at the barracks to arrest the attackers and three military lines blocked their passage.


Brazilian soldiers prevented on Sunday the

arrest of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro

who attacked the headquarters of the three public powers in Brasilia, the US press revealed today.

"Here you will not arrest people

," Army Commander General

Júlio César de Arruda

told Justice Minister Flávio Dino, according to two officials present, quoted by

The Washington Post.

According to the reconstruction of the newspaper, "when

senior officials of the Lula administration arrived at the Army headquarters

on Sunday night with the objective of guaranteeing the arrest of the insurgents in the camp, they found themselves in front of tanks and three military lines ", quoted the

ANSA

news agency

.

That act of protection, "which Lula government 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 the military and police and the thousands of rioters

who invaded the institutions".

The same pattern, according to the newspaper, is also "a change in the security plan in the face of the devastaters gathered outside the federal buildings on Sunday", in addition to "the

inaction and fraternization of the police

when they began to enter the buildings, and the presence of a high command of the military police who had told his superiors that he was on vacation".

The article was based on interviews with more than 20 senior administration and judiciary officials, protest organizers, participants, and includes previously unreported details of the five-hour attack that rocked the South American country.

The first signs of collusion between the police and the attackers

Several hours after the attack on government buildings in Brazil began, the suspicion of

collusion between the Brasilia Police and the Bolsonaro protesters began

to gain strength based on the videos circulating on social networks and the suggestive lack of security in the vicinity.

As published by the

Globo.com

site last Sunday, a group of ten

military policemen were filmed talking to the attackers and recording images

of the invasion of the National Congress on their cell phones.

While the radicals went up the ramp and destroyed the building,

the police waited next to the vehicles,

without any action to contain the extremists, reports the Brazilian media.

The invasion occurred after a confrontation with the Military Police in the Explanada dos Ministérios, in Brasilia.

The participants in anti-democratic acts carried sticks and stones.

According to

Globo.com

, the military police tried to contain the radicals with pepper spray, but they invaded the containment area that surrounds the National Congress.

The suspicions denounced by Lula Da Silva

In his speech hours after the attack, President

Lula Da Silva

had stated that the Federal District policemen who were filmed avoiding arresting the protesters will also have to pay.

The president remarked that

there was a defective security operation.

"We believe that

there was a lack of security

and I want to say that all the people who did this will be found and will be punished," Lula said in Araraquara, São Paulo state, where he was visiting due to a flood tragedy.

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Source: clarin

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