Brasilia: Some 1,500 people have been arrested in Brazil in the wake of the violent riots staged by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who
Brasilia: Some 1,500 people have been arrested in Brazil in the wake of the violent riots staged by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the Supreme Court, Congress, and the presidential palace in the country’s capital.
Authorities arrested 1,200 people on Monday in addition to 300 detained on Sunday just hours after the riots took place, reports the BBC.
According to Justice Minister Flavio Dino, some 40 buses which had been used to transport protesters to the capital had been seized.
Also on Monday, heavily armed officers dismantled a camp of Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia — one of a number that has been set up outside army barracks around the country since the presidential election in October 2022.
Sunday’s violence came exactly a week after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in.
Lula, who was President between January 2003 and December 2010, defeated Bolsonaro by a narrow margin in the October 31, 2022 run-off election.
