Why were the key places of power in Brazil a liberated zone for the Bolsonaristas?: Doubts about the police

One day after the assault on the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia by supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaroquestions arise about the lack of preparation, incompetence and even about possible complicity of the security forces of the federal district in the episodes.

How was it that the invaders were able to gain such easy access to key sites of power in Brazil? Did someone finance this attack perpetrated against Brazilian democracy?

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whatWhy the forces of order did not dismantle the camps of former president Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters earlierinstalled for two months in front of military buildings throughout the country, demanding a military intervention to prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva come back to power?

“Tragedy more than announced in Brasilia”titled the editorial writer Eliomar de Lima in a chronicle for the newspaper O Povo, from Fortaleza (northeast).

There were signs that preceded these events. On Saturday night, a hundred buses with some 4,000 Bolsonaro supporters arrived in the capital and joined the camp in front of the Army headquarters.

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The Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, then authorized the deployment of agents of the National Public Security Force, a special police force sent to different states in case of a threat against law and order.

This did not prevent the protesters from traveling 8 km from their camp to the Plaza de los Tres poderes, in the immediate vicinity of which are the presidential palace, the seat of the Federal Supreme Court, and the Congress, without being blocked by the police.

“Bad will or bad faith”

“There was, I would say, incompetence, ill will or bad faith of the people who take care of the public safety of the Federal District”he stated on Sunday Lulabefore returning to Brasilia from Sao Paulo where he was visiting a town affected by floods.

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Minutes before the invasion, a person in charge of security in Brasilia sent a message to the governor of the federal district, Ibaneis Rocha, pointing out: “The protesters are escorted by the police (…) and the weather is calm, it is a totally peaceful demonstration”, he points out in this record published by the Metropoles site.

In his editorial published Monday, the influential newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo highlighted “the surprising ease with which the vandals who did not accept the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro invaded the places of power in Brasilia, in the worst attack against Brazilian democracy since the end of the military dictatorship (1964-1985)”.

“All expenses paid”

Long before the arrival of the buses, many posts on social networks alluded to the concentration in Brasilia.

“All expenses paid. Water, breakfast, lunch and dinner. And they will camp in Planalto”, the presidential palace, noted a message in a group of Bolsonaro supporters on Telegram.

Doubts also hover over the State intelligence services.

The attitude of some police officers was also questionedthrough videos that they show agents filming the invasion on their phones instead of intervening.

“There was no need for security, there were policemen. He failed to let them act, so as not to let them do what they did. It was an invasion”said Pedro Sabino Rapatoni, a 21-year-old administrative assistant in Brasília.

On TV Globo, the prestigious journalist Miriam Leitao denounced on Monday the “bolsonarization of the police forces in Brasilia”.

Leitao particularly accused the dismissed Secretary of Security of the Federal District, Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice of Bolsonaro who was in the United States on Sunday, as was the former president.

Torres was fired on Sunday by Governor Ibaneis Rocha, who in turn was suspended from his duties for 90 days by a Supreme Court judge.

Other officials could fall in the coming days.

Source: Elcomercio

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