Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to AdventHealth Celebration, a hospital outside of Orlando, Florida, with severe abdominal pain. The portal O Globo writes it, recalling that since the operation he underwent after the stabbing in 2018, Bolsonaro has been hospitalized on other occasions for abdominal pain. Most recently in November when he was admitted to the army hospital in Brasilia. The news of the hospitalization was later confirmed by his wife.
The USA You have not received an official request from Brazil regarding a possible extradition by Bolsonaro after his supporters attacked Parliament. This was announced by the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, specifying that the American authorities are not in direct contact with Bolsonaro. “Of course, if we receive such requests, we would treat them as we always do, we would take them seriously,” he added.
Among the protesters who took part in storming the edifices of power in Brazil was identified Bolsonaro’s nephew, Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus – known as “Leo Indio”. Cnn writes it online. Indio posted several videos and photos on his Instagram profile on Sunday, showing him in the crowd surrounding the Brazilian Congress. In a selfie, Indio appears in a green shirt and black cap, and his eyes are visibly red. In a later-edited caption, Indio says his eyes were red from tear gas “launched by security forces, who turned their attention to all of the protesters.” He also denied involvement in “any vandalism” and said those responsible for the demolitions of government buildings were “vandals in disguise and cowards in disguise as patriots”.
I am “about 1,500” people arrested in connection with the attack by Bolsonaro’s supporters on the buildings of power that took place yesterday in Brasilia. This was announced by the Brazilian Minister of Justice Flavio Dino. According to the minister, 50 teams are deployed to collect evidence and follow up on the arrests. The Department of Justice has set up a channel for anyone wishing to report possible crimes via email. More than 13,000 reports have already been received.
The holders of the three branches of state have disclosed a joint note in which they claim “Reject” “Acts of Terror” committed by the radical Bolsonarists in Brasilia and call on the population to “defend peace and democracy”. The note is signed by the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio lula da Silva, from the pro tempore President of the Senate, Venetian Vital do Rêgo, by the President of RoomArthur Lira, and by the President of Supreme CourtPink Weaver. The document was released after a meeting between them at the Palacio do Planalto in Brasilia. “The rulers of the republic, defenders of democracy and the 1988 constitutional charter, reject this Terrorist attacks, vandalism, criminals and putschists took place yesterday afternoon (Sunday) in Brasilia,” the text reads. “We call on society to keep calm to defend peace and democracy in our homeland,” he added.
His predecessor Bolsonaro Nevertheless, he condemned what had happened: “Peaceful demonstrations are part of democracy according to the law. And he rejected the accusations that the new President Inacio Lula da Silva accused him of, according to his own statements, without evidence: “Throughout my mandate – he underlined – I have always been within the framework of the constitution, which respects and defends the laws and democracy , Transparency and Our Sacred Freedom”.
And while US President Joe biden Condemning what he called “the assault on democracy and the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil” and assuring Washington’s full support, the Brazilian leader returned to Brasilia, where he observed the looting of the presidential palace and the Supreme Court by Bolsonaro supporters. Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been in office for just a week, earlier said in a speech from São Paulo state that his far-right predecessor had “encouraged” “fascist vandals” to invade power centers in the capital.
From there came the strong condemnation of an “attack on democracy in Brazil”. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: “It is of great concern to all of us, the defenders of democracy,” he wrote on Twitter. “My full support for President Lula, who was freely and fairly elected.”
This morning The Brazilian authorities have started to assess the extensive damage in the Presidential Palace, Congress and the Supreme Court of Brasilia after yesterday’s attack by supporters of the former President. After several hours of chaos, police regained control of buildings overrun by hundreds of anti-Lula protesters and arrested hundreds of people, according to Justice and Security Minister Flavio Dino. The area had been cordoned off by the authorities. But the Bolsonarists, many of them in the yellow jerseys of the Brazilian soccer team, a symbol the Bolsonarists have appropriated, have managed to break through the security chains. You’ve done significant damage. According to photos circulating on social media, priceless paintings were damaged.
And Portal reports that protesters who broke into the Supreme Court buildings, the Congress building and the Presidential Palace smashed windows, toppled furniture, destroyed artwork, stole the original 1988 constitution and stole weapons from a presidential security office.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and TikTok to block coup propaganda. In addition, at the request of the Attorney General of the Union, he ordered telecommunications companies to keep logs of the connection and geolocation of users who are in Praça dos Três Poderes.
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Safety chains broken, police use tear gas (ANSA)
Demonstrators blocked freeways and federal highways overnight in at least four states. The state of Mato Grosso has been hardest hit by protests by supporters of former President Bolsonaro. The online site of Folha de S. Paulo reports about it.
Federal Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered the governor’s removal of the federal district of Brasilia Ibaneis Rocha for a period of 90 days. The decision came after the invasion of the Congress building, the Federal Court of Justice and the Palácio do Planalto, seat of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil. This is reported by the Brazilian media. “The violent escalation of criminal acts is a circumstance that can only occur with the approval and even effective involvement of the relevant public security and intelligence agencies,” Moraes said.
Alexandre de Moraes said that the federal district governor ignored all requests from various agencies to strengthen security. “Deceptively negligent behavior by Governor Ibaneis Rocha, who not only made public statements defending a bogus ‘free political demonstration in Brasilia’ – despite all networks knowing that attacks on institutions and their members would follow – but also all appeals by the Authorities ignored a security plan similar to those implemented for the past two years on September 7, particularly with a ban on terrorist criminals entering the Ministries Esplanade after wide access was opened,” he said.
Brasilia’s security forces told Governor Ibaneis Rocha yesterday that “peaceful” and “organized” access to the esplanade of ministries had been “negotiated” with supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro just before the attack. “Everything calm,” begins the tone, which the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo accesses, in which the number two of the security minister, Fernando de Sousa Oliveira, intervenes. “We negotiated so that they descend peacefully, organized and accompanied. Agreed,” says Oliveira. “It’s a very calm, very pleasant environment. A very gentle, absolutely peaceful demonstration,” Oliveira stressed in his final part to Rocha.
Biden-Trudeau Obrador condemn attack: ‘Eager to work with Lula’
“Canada, Mexico and the US condemn the January 8 attacks on Brazilian democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. We stand by Brazil as it protects its democratic institutions,” Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau and Andres Manuel said in a joint statement to Lopez Obrador on the sidelines of their summit in Mexico City. “Our governments support the free will of the Brazilian people,” they continue, saying they are “impatient to work with President Lula to achieve results for our countries, for the Western Hemisphere and beyond.”