A video from one of the security cameras of the Brazilian Congress released in the last few hours shows how hundreds of Jair Bolsonaro’s followers forcibly entered to that building and caused destruction by calling for military intervention to overthrow the new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In the pictures you can see how he managed, by force and with sticks and iron bars, to break down one of the access doors. With their faces covered to protect themselves from the gas and with shields, they entered the building located in Brasilia.

First they had passed a police barrier and climbed the ramp that allowed them to enter the property. Another group advanced towards the Piazza dei Tre Poteri and also towards the Palazzo Planalto and the seat of the Supreme Court of Justice.

The video was broadcast by the Brazilian media or globe. The followers of the now former Brazilian president have also reached the Black Room, where various events take place and which serves as access to the Senate.

Bolsonaro’s former justice minister arrested

In the last few hours, Anderson Torres, Jair Bolsonaro’s former justice minister, has been arrested and accused of being linked to the attempted coup against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Torres is accused of “alleged omission” by the authorities, given that he was Secretary of Security of the Federal District of Brasilia when last Sunday thousands of radical Bolsonarists, without much resistance from the police, stormed the headquarters of Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidency .

The former minister was arrested this Saturday morning by the federal police at Brasilia international airport upon disembarking from Miami, where he was on vacation.

Arrested in a Military Police battalion, Torres carried out an investigation this Saturday, but the content of his statements will be kept secret, according to the Federal Police.

The former minister assumed command of security in the country’s capital on January 2 and five days later, and without explanation, went on vacation to the United States, so he wasn’t in Brazil when the riots occurred.

In messages posted on social media this week from the United States, Torres repudiated the attacks, said there was a contingency plan in case of violence caused by the marches, and said the document found in his residence was “leaked out of context, helping to fuel fallacious narratives” against him.

Through the networks, the former minister also said he would put himself in the hands of the authorities because he is “sure that the truth will prevail”.

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