President vows thorough investigation and says ‘many people were complicit … the truth is the palace was full of Bolsonaristas’
The Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he suspects hardcore supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro among the presidential staff facilitated the entry of insurrectionists whoSpeaking to a group of political journalists in Brasília’s Planalto palace – one of three buildings trashed by the pro-Bolsonaro mob last Sunday – Lula vowed to carry out a “thorough screening” of employees in the wake of the historic attack.“I am waiting for the dust to settle.
“I feel very, very, very angry about what happened,” Lula told journalists over breakfast at the palace he previously occupied between 2003 and 2010. – had given statements describing how they had been overwhelmed by a horde of radicals armed with homemade bombs, wooden clubs, metal railings, firecrackers and slingshots used to hurl marbles.
On Thursday, Lula told reporters he believed the putschists had only spared his office because they believed Bolsonaro would reoccupy it once their alleged coup attempt had been completed, allowing the former president to fly back from the US to retake power.
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