In the wake of the assault Sunday on Brazil’s National Congress, Supreme Federal Court and presidential office by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised to bring the rioters to justice as he toured the destruction.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the immediate suspension of the governor of Brasília for 90 days, accusing him and the district’s head of public security of abetting the unprecedented attack on the country’s capital.
“Absolutely NOTHING justifies the secretary of public security and the governor of the federal district’s omission and coexistence with criminals who had previously announced they would conduct violent acts against constitutional powers,” he wrote in his decision. According to Moraes, federal district police authorized the entrance of more than 100 buses of Bolsonaro supporters into the capital with no police escort, despite knowing the groups were notorious for anti-democratic and violent acts. Moraes prohibited all buses and trucks carrying protesters from entering the capital until the end of the month.
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