Top national security adviser to Brazil's Lula resigns after video emerges showing him interacting with pro-Bolsonaro supporters and apparently 'showing them the exit' during the storming of government buildings in capital Brasilia
Thousands of Bolsonaro's supporters stormed the halls of power in Brasilia in January, a week after Lula took office.
General Marco Edson Goncalves Dias, head of the Institutional Security Bureau [GSI], submitted his resignation on Wednesday afterbroadcast images from security cameras showing Goncalves Dias at the Planalto Palace, one of the federal buildings ransacked by protesters earlier this year. Videos also showed at least two GSI officials shaking hands and giving water bottles to the protesters, who stormed federal buildings in a failed and largely disorganised bid to overthrow the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who succeeded Bolsonaro.
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