Assault on power in Brazil: “You won’t arrest anyone here”, reveal that the military facilitated the attackers’ escape

Brazilian soldiers prevented the Sunday Arrest of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who attacked the headquarters of the three public powers in Brasilia, the US press reveals today.

“You will not arrest people here”said the army commander, general Julius Caesar de Arrudato the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, according to two officials present quoted by the newspaper The Washington Post.

According to the reconstruction of the newspaper, “when senior officials from the Lula administration arrived at Army headquarters Sunday night with the aim of ensuring the arrest of the insurgents in the camp, they found themselves in front of tanks and three military lines”, quotes the news agency HANDLE.

This act of protection “, which according to government officials Lula it gave hundreds of supporters time to escape arrestit’s one of several indications of a troubling pattern that authorities are now investigating for evidence an alleged collusion between the military and the police and the thousands of rioters that has invaded the institutions”.

The same scheme, according to the newspaper, is also “a change in the security plan in the face of the devastators gathered in front of the federal buildings on Sunday”, as well as “the inaction and fraternization of the police when they began to enter the buildings, and the presence of a high command of the military police who had communicated to his superiors that he was on vacation”.

The article was based on interviews with more than 20 senior administration and judiciary officials, protest organizers, participants, and includes previously unreported details of the five-hour attack that rocked the South American country.

First signs of collusion between police and attackers

Several hours after the attack on government buildings in Brazil began, suspects of collusion between the Brasilia police and Bolsonaro protesters based on the videos circulating on social networks and the suggestive lack of safety in the immediate vicinity.

As posted by the site globe. com last Sunday, a group of ten military police officers were filmed talking to the attackers and recording footage of the invasion of the National Congress on their cell phones.

When the radicals went up the ramp and destroyed the building, the police waited beside the vehicles, without any action to contain the extremists, Brazilian media reported.

The invasion occurred after a clash with the Military Police in the Explanada dos Ministérios, in Brasilia. Participants in undemocratic acts carried sticks and stones.

According to the slogan globe. commilitary police tried to contain the radicals with pepper spray, but they overran the containment area surrounding the National Congress.

The suspects reported by Lula Da Silva

In his speech a few hours after the attack, the president Lula DaSilva He said that Federal District police officers who were filmed avoiding arresting protesters will also have to pay.

The president underlined it there was a faulty security operation.

“We believe that there was a lack of security and I want to say that all the people who did this will be found and will be punished,” Lula said in Araraquara, in the state of São Paulo, where he was due to a flood.