Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has responded to accusations he encouraged 'fascist fanatics' to storm Brazil's Congress and other major institutions. 9News
The former president has repeatedly sparred with Supreme Court justices, and the room where they convene was trashed by the rioters. They sprayed fire hoses inside the Congress building and ransacked offices at the presidential palace. Windows were broken in all of the buildings.
Lula said at his news conference there was "incompetence or bad faith″ on the part of police, and that they had been likewise complacent when Bolsonaro supporters rioted in the capital weeks ago. He promised those officers would be punished and expelled from the corps. Unlike the 2021 attack in the US, few officials were likely to have been working in the Brazilian Congress and Supreme Court on a Sunday.His national security adviser Jake Sullivan went a step further on Twitter and said the US "condemns any effort to undermine democracy in Brazil".
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly tweeted: "The violent attempts to undermine democracy in Brazil are unjustifiable. President @LulaOficial and the government of Brazil have the full support of the UK." Protesters, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, clash with police during a protest outside the Planalto Palace building in Brasilia. Earlier videos on social media showed a limited presence of the capital's military police; one showed officers standing by as people flooded into Congress, with one using his phone to record images. The capital's security secretariat didn't respond to a request from The Associated Press for comment about the relative absence of the police.
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