In Brazil After Sunday’s fall with the attempted coup, the biggest impact is on top security Brazil: The executive secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, Ricardo Cappelli, has exonerated all the leaders of Brasilia’s security forces accused of careless behavior during the attack by Jair’s radical supporters on the power buildings on Sunday Bolsonaro.
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Among those released are the commander of the raiding party, Major Gustavo Cunha; the chief of operations, Colonel Eduardo Naime; the Executive Secretary and Commissioner of the Federal Police, Fernando Souza Oliveira, and Marlia Ferreira de Alencar, Undersecretary of State for Intelligence. The administrative act signed by Cappelli, appointed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Federal Commissioner for Interventions in the Brasilia District, also formalizes the dismissal of Colonel Fábio Augusto Vieira, former Commander General of the Military Police, who is in prison.
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Lula: “I’d Like to Think of Madmen, Not Putschists”
“I would like to think of something less than the coup that was the work of a group of mentally ill people,” said Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Sunday’s attack on the buildings of power in Brasilia by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro. “They are acts of a minority who continue to believe the lie of voter fraud and who do not want to accept that our electronic ballot box is the most perfect in the world,” added Lula, who defeated Bolsonaro in the runoff. “I would have liked to have avoided federal intervention, but these people don’t want to talk.”