A video circulating on social networks shows a man calling gunmen and truck drivers to protest the diplomacy of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), who was elected president on December 19. The call was made through a microphone in front of the Army’s headquarters in Brasilia.
The episode was supposed to take place yesterday – the date is reported in the video itself. The man identifies himself as Milton Baldin of Juruena (MT). In the report, it was determined that a person with this name called the company in the city, but he could not be reached.
“I’m asking agricultural businessmen, businessmen to give the truck drivers a vacation and send the truck drivers to Brasilia. Only 15 days, it won’t matter. Ask the CACs, shooters with legal guns too… We have 900,000 shooters in Brazil today, here we go. Come and show your presence.”
“If we lose this war, what do you think will happen? [no] 19th day? Will they hand over the weapons, what will they say? “Lost, mané,” the protester added, citing the sentence of STF (Federal Supreme Court) minister Luís Roberto Barroso to a Bolsonarist in New York (USA).
The man also claims that the national flag “may even be red but with his own blood” and is applauded by others.
By July of this year, more than 673,000 people had been registered as CACs (gun collectors, professional shooters and hunters), and nearly a million guns had been registered.
According to data obtained by the Sou da Paz Institute, this number represents an increase of more than 187% compared to 2018 before Bolsonaro’s government. Access to weapons has been made more flexible by Bolsonaro’s presidential decrees.
After Lula’s defeat, on October 30, Bolsonaro’s supporters launched coup demonstrations, calling for military intervention to desecrate the election results and prevent the elected official from taking office.
As part of the coup demonstrations, while highways were closed in different parts of the country, camps were set up in front of the Armed Forces facilities.
STF (Federal Supreme Court) Minister Alexandre de Moraes had previously stated in a decision that requesting a coup could constitute a crime of violently destroying the democratic rule of law and that the penalty could be up to four to eight years in prison.
Protest against Biden’s swearing-in ceremony in the US
Lula’s attempt to disrupt his diplomacy in Brazil, suggested in the video recorded in front of Army headquarters in Brasília, is similar to what happened in the United States in the approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration.
On January 6, 2021, supporters of then President Donald Trump protested Biden’s victory in the US elections and occupied the Capitol Building, the meeting place of the US Congress.
On that day, it was planned to confirm the victory of the current president of the United States.
Watch the video where snipers are called in for Lula’s diplomacy:
source: Noticias
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