Brasilia, Jan 31 — The federal intervention in public security in the Federal District (DF) ends today, after being set up by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of the Jan 8 coup attempt.
In his emergency speech that day, Lula reiterated that the DF lacked security and promised to find and punish the terrorists.
The aim of the measure was to “put an end to the serious disturbance of public order” in the territorial division marked by the invasion and looting of the seats of the National Congress, the Federal Court of Justice and the Bureau.
That day, amid calls of “general cleansing” and the sound of Brazilian anthems, a huge group of extremist supporters of defeated President Jair Bolsonaro entered the esplanade of ministries to demonstrate against the results of the second round of elections on October 30 that Lula won .
Even with demands for military intervention, the putschists broke in violently and later looted the buildings of the three powers in that capital.
The regulation issued by Lula for the occasion was coordinated by the auditor Ricardo García Cappelli, current executive secretary of the Ministry of Justice.
According to the decree, the inspector was subordinate to the President of the Republic and not to the district norms, which contradict the necessary measures to carry out the intervention.
“These vandals, which we can call fascists, fanatics have done what has never been done in the history of this country,” denounced the former trade unionist on the occasion.
He insisted that what happened “has no precedent in the history of our country. These people need to be punished. We will uncover the funding of those vandals who went to Brasilia. We will discover them all and they will pay with the force of the law for this irresponsible gesture,” he stressed.
According to the Justice portfolio, there is no projection to continue the federal intervention 23 days past the deadline.
In this regard, Minister Flavio Dino stated last week that he did not intend to extend the measure as there was no constitutional reason to do so.