Supporters of Brazil's defeated Bolsonaro attack police headquarters



BRASILIA, Dec 12 () - Supporters of some distance-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday attempted to invade the federal police headquarters in the capital Brasilia, in a flash of put up-election violence on the day the president's electoral defeat was licensed.

witnesses noticed Bolsonaro supporters, many in their trademark yellow national soccer jerseys or draped in Brazilian flags, confronting safety forces at police headquarters. Police fired stun grenades and tear gasoline to disperse the gang. Nearby buses and cars have been set on hearth.

Federal police stated "disturbances" close to the headquarters had been being treated with help from capital safety forces.

The violence spread out after a Bolsonaro supporter grow to be detained for allegedly organizing violent "anti-democratic acts," consistent with the decide who ordered his arrest.

Earlier on Monday, the federal electoral court (TSE) licensed the Oct. 30 election victory of Bolsonaro's leftist rival, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as president. After months of baseless tips that Brazil's vote casting device is prone to fraud, Bolsonaro has neither conceded defeat to Lula nor has he officially blocked the handover of strength.

But some of the president's most diehard supporters have blocked highways in protest and camped out in the front of army barracks, calling for a army coup to bar Lula from office.

Hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters collected out of doors the presidential house on Monday afternoon with banners calling for "navy intervention." The president joined them for a public prayer however did not cope with the group.

"There's no longer going to be an inauguration," said Jose Trindade, fifty eight, one of the Bolsonaro supporters within the crowd. "Bolsonaro have become re-elected, however they stole it. So best the military can located topics so as."

The conspiracy theories and subsequent violence have rekindled reminiscences of the January 2021 invasion of the U.S. Capitol via supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump. It additionally raises protection issues about Jan. 1, at the same time as Lula takes administrative center in a public ceremony in Brasilia.

Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, a key Lula aide, stated there have been concerns approximately the physical safety of Lula and Vice President-choose Geraldo Alckmin, as protesters had surrounded the inn in which he's staying in Brasilia. Lula's group denied reviews that Lula would be removed from the lodge by using helicopter.

[1/13] A bus is visible on fireplace as supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro protest after ideally fitted court docket docket justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a transient arrest warrant of indigenous chief Jose Acacio Serere Xavante for alleged anti-democratic acts, in Brasilia, Brazil, December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

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Brasilia's public security officials stated they'd secured the place spherical Lula's lodge, and entreated motorists to avoid the center of the town wherein many roads were closed.

The violence in Brasilia got here after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has led probes into Bolsonaro and his allies, on Monday ordered the brief arrest of José Acácio Serere Xavante for allegedly wearing out anti-democratic acts.

Xavante, an indigenous chief, is most of the Bolsonaro supporters who've protested in defiance of the Oct. 30 election end end result.

"I can't accept criminals reing in Brasil," Xavante tweeted closing month. "Lula cannot be licensed."

Last week, Bolsonaro broke weeks of post-election silence to say that his scenario "hurts my soul."

"Who makes a decision in which I skip are you. Who makes a decision which manner the military bypass are you," Bolsonaro counseled his supporters at the gates of the presidential residence on Friday.

In a announcement, the Supreme Court stated Moraes "decreed the transient arrest, for 10 days, of the indigenous José Acácio Serere Xavante, because of proof of the fee of crimes of risk, persecution and violent abolition of the Democratic State of Law."

It said Xavante had led protests across Brasilia and had used "his function as leader of the Xavante people to enlist indigenous and non-indigenous human beings to commit crimes," threatening Lula and Supreme Court justices.

Xavante had "expressly summoned armed humans to save you the certification of elected" politicians, the announcement added.

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