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In São Paulo, the camp installed in front of the state Legislative Assembly and the Military Circle, in the South Zone of the capital, began to be dismantled in the early afternoon. The police were sent to the scene to remove the protesters.
11h50: CBF issued a statement of repudiation regarding the terrorist attacks that took place yesterday in Brasília.
11h48: Social movements from across the country came together for an “Act in defense of democracy and against terrorist acts”. The gathering will be on the main avenues of the states at 18pm. In São Paulo, the event will take place on Avenida Paulista, with a concentration at MASP.
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11h44: Former Minister of Tourism Gilson Machado Neto, affiliated with the PL, and several supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) have published an Army communication page on social media as if it were an enlistment of civilians against the results of the elections, encouraging the registration of Bolsonaro supporters for coup acts. Among them, hunters, sports shooters and collectors, the (CACs). The army page published is not for this purpose. The “Pro-Active Reserve” address was created in 2015 and is used by military personnel only to send a weekly bulletin with news, aimed at reservists.
11h44: The first lady, Janja, made a post on social media about the terrorist acts that took place in Brasília this Sunday. In a series of tweets, the first lady stated that “democracy will not bend and President Lula will not lower his head. That’s what Dona Lindu always told him and that’s what the Brazilian people expect from him at this moment: never lower your head, Lula.”
11h16: The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, said that “the legislative police, bodies responsible for the security of the National Congress, carried out 44 arrests in the act of criminals who carried out undemocratic acts and scenes of savagery in Brasília”.
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11h12: See the joint demonstration by the presidents of the Powers of the Republic, signed this morning, in repudiation of yesterday's coup acts in Brasília.
11h08: The Communication Secretariat of the Palácio do Planalto released a note listing part of the damage caused by Bolsonarista terrorists to the Palácio do Planalto's collection. One of the damaged works is the painting “As Mulatas” by Di Cavalcanti, estimated at R$8 million. According to the note, “it is not yet possible to have a detailed survey of all the paintings, sculptures and pieces of furniture destroyed”.
10h27: Lula meets with heads of the three Powers in Brasília.
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10h19: The DF Civil Police reported that 204 people were arrested red-handed in yesterday's coup acts (8). (Globonews)
10h10: O pope francisco regretted, this Monday (9), “the tensions” and “violence” in several countries on the American continent affected by political crises, including Brazil.
“I think of the various political crises in several countries on the American continent, with their share of tensions and forms of violence worsening social conflicts,” he said, during his vows to the diplomatic corps at the Vatican. “I think, particularly, about what happened recently in Peru and in these last few hours in Brazil”, he added.
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Francis described as “worrying” the “weakening, in many parts of the world, of democracy”. (AFP)
09h36: The Ministry of Justice and Public Security created an email to receive information about terrorists who invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the three Powers this Sunday (8). The email to share information with the ministry is email [email protected]
09h: 1.200 people were detained by the Federal Police in front of the Army headquarters in Brasília.
09h18: Scammers who were camped in the Federal District are being taken to the Federal Police headquarters. At least 40 buses filled with extremist supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) left the scene.
08h37: Governors of three states, Alagoas, Bahia and Pará, promehad to send troops to reinforce security in Brasília after terrorists invaded the headquarters of the three Powers.
The governor of Alagoas, Paulo Dantas (MDB), made the state's police forces available to the Federal Government on Sunday night, and classified the terrorist attack in Brasília as “inadmissible and criminal”.
The governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB), said he will send 60 police officers from the Shock Battalion in support of the Federal Government.
This morning, 70 military police officers from the Bahia Shock Battalion sent by governor Jerônimo Rodrigues (PT) disembarked in Brasília.
07h50: Access for employees and journalists to the buildings vandalized yesterday (8) is restricted, while experts work to survey the damage and collect material for investigations. The Blue Room, in the Senate, is one of the closed areas.
07h37: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meets, this Monday morning (9), with the president of the Supreme Court (STF), Rosa Weber. The meeting will be at Palácio do Planalto, headquarters of the Executive Branch that was invaded and vandalized by terrorists yesterday (8).
07h: The Military Police of the Federal District heads this Monday morning (9) to the coup camp near the Army headquarters in Brasília. Action comes after decision by Federal Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moares, who gave 24 hours for camps to be closed.
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01h00: Moraes orders the governor of DF to be removed: The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes ordered the removal of the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha (MDB), for an initial period of 90 days. The decision responds to a request by Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, government leader in Congress. (Metropolis)
22h00: After hundreds of people arrested and investigations into those involved in full swing, the Brazilian authorities, in consensus, said they were withprometaken with the investigations and the reestablishment of national order. The STF, through its president, Rosa Weber, assured that it will act to judge and punish those involved in today's extremist episode.
Senators Renan Calheiros and Randolfe Rodrigues, based on the acts, propose a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate and attribute responsibility to the extremists involved in this Sunday's episode.
21h38: At the end of the press conference, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, emphasized that Brazilians can be reassured by today's actions and added: “I assure you that this will no longer happen in our country”.
21h34: When asked about former president Jair Bolsonaro's potential guilt over today's extremist acts, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, commented that “there is political responsibility for the acts, but not yet legal responsibility”.
21h20: Former president Jair Bolsonaro took to Twitter to take a stance on this Sunday's terrorist acts. Speaking of “four lines” and citing demonstrations from 2013 and 2017, Bolsonaro pointed out:
21h08: After a CNN journalist, during the press conference, asked Dino about the inefficiency of the police in containing the acts, the minister commented: “The (ideological) preference within national institutions is withpromehaving the situation.”
20h58: The Minister of Instructional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, highlighted what was already said by the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, about the investigations: “The federal government goes after those who finance attacks on the Palace, Congress and the Supreme Court”.
20h: Alexandre Padilha, Minister of Institutional Relations, took to the pulpit to say that “buses leaving São Paulo were identified tonight, some of them free”. Also according to Padilha, “President Lula wants to visit Planalto and the National Congress as soon as possible”.
20h50: Minister Flávio Dino also commented that the investigation actions cannot end, as “there are still people right now, on the internet, talking about terrorist acts, but they will not be able to destroy Brazilian democracy”.
20h46: Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, speaks at a press conference about the invasions episode. “The entire complement of the National Force proved to be insufficient given the gravity of what happened,” said Dino, citing the action that authorized the reinforcement to maintain public order this morning. In addition, the minister also said that he will investigate those involved in the acts.
“There are approximately 40 buses seized. We have already identified all the buses that came to Brasília. and all financiers of such buses. We will have new requests for preventive prevention… we are adopting more measures to reinforce the security of the capital of the Republic”
20h42: Governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, says there are more than 400 prisoners for this Sunday's actions.
20h34: President Lula is returning to Brasília after coup acts that marked the country this December 8th.
Quaest carried out a survey of posts on social media about this Sunday's extremist acts: 90% of the mentions were negative.
20h25: The new intervener of the Federal District, Ricardo Cappelli, informed that he accompanies the security forces troops in the removal of coup extremists from the Três Poderes area.
20h21: Brasília's security forces are directing members of the coup to the Brasília bus station, in an attempt to register and begin a process of dismantling the movement that calls for a coup. (TV Globo)
20h: The President of the United States, Joe Biden, condemned this Sunday's attacks in Brasília:
20h17: The North American government expressed solidarity with the Brazilian authorities regarding the extremist attacks against the Three Powers of Brazil this Sunday (8), through United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The US congresswoman, from the Democratic party, Alexandria Ocacio-Cortez, made a post on her Instagram in support of President Lula, stating that: “Almost two years after the invasion of the Capitol attacked by fascists, we see a movement of fascists against the government of Brazil”.
20h04: The Army even placed troops in Brasília ready for a possible GLO (Guarantee of Law and Order) decree this Sunday (8), says Folha de S.Paulo report. According to the report, the objective would be to contain the radical Bolsonarists who were vandalizing the National Congress, the Palácio do Planalto and the STF (Supreme Federal Court). In total, 2.500 soldiers are stationed in Brasília. 🚥
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20h00: Coups make their way back from the National Congress and the Military Police break up gas bombs and continue trying to remove the extremists from the area where the buildings of the Three Powers are located. The Federal District Police reported that 170 suspects have already been arrested.
19h46: Representatives of the Judiciary of Brazil, including the president of the Superior Military Court, Lúcio Mário de Barros Goes, signed a public note on the demonstrations this Sunday (8), condemning the coup acts, reaffirming the “empire of the Law”, and reinforcing that “no one should attack the Democratic Rule of Law”.
19h: Public Agency report tracked the coordination of extremist acts that destroyed Três Poderes buildings in Brasília and shows that the action was coordinated days ago via social media:
“Selma”, an allusion to the Jungle — an expression used by the Brazilian military — was one of the codes used by Bolsonaristas to combine the last stages of the invasion of the Congress, Planalto and STF buildings. The code had been used for days by Bolsonaristas freely on open social networks, such as Twitter.
The expression “Festa da Selma” was even used alongside the hashtag #BrazilianSpring — Brazilian Spring, in English. A report by Pública revealed that the expression was launched by Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former strategist, shortly after Bolsonaro's defeat in the 2022 elections. The term is an appropriation of movements in pro-democracy Arab countries, and was shared by Bannon to raise false doubts about the Brazilian electoral system, informs the public agency.
19h28: The president of the Superior Electoral Court, Alexandre de Moraes, also a member of the STF, spoke about the acts of terror in the DF:
19h15: After terrorism in Brasília, governor of the Federal District, Ibanês Rocha, apologizes to President Lula and president of the Federal Supreme Court. See the video:
18h: The legislative police of the Federal Senate reported the arrest in the act of 30 people who invaded the Senate plenary.
18h42: At least 150 people have already been arrested participating in the depredation of public property (G1). See images of members of invasions being arrested in Brasília.
18h37: National Governors Forum makes himself available to send police troops to Brasília and demands the punishment of financiers of the invasions of the Três Poderes buildings in Brasília (Globonews)
18h – Military police arrest invaders in Congress and Planalto, after vandalizing public buildings.
18h20: A General Attorney's Office of the Union (AGU) asks the Federal Supreme Court to request the arrest of the Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District. He also calls for the arrest in the act of everyone who participated in acts of vandalism in the invasion of public buildings in Brasília. (Globonews)
18h19: See an excerpt from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's speech about the invasion of the headquarters of the Three Powers in Brasília:
18h15: The president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira, talks about the acts of terror in Brasília and makes himself available in favor of Democracy:
18h10: Decree signed by President Lula on intervention in the government of the Federal District:
18h07: Lula says that “evil agribusiness”, which wants to use poison without respect for people, were there [in Brasília], in the invasion of the Três Poderes buildings. “These people will be punished,” said the president.
18h: “It’s very sad that [this happens] after the democratic party on the 1st…
“They took advantage of the silence on Sunday…to do what they did today. Everyone knows that there is a speech by the former President of the Republic encouraging this,” said Lula, remembering Bolsonaro's speeches encouraging invasions of the STF.
18h02: Lula criticizes the Brasília PM: “these police officers who participated in this will not go unpunished and will no longer be able to be part of the police”.
“These people need to be punished in an exemplary manner. They need to be punished so that no one else, with the flag on their back, with the Brazilian team shirt… ever does this again.” Lula said that “not even at the height of the armed struggle, in the 60s, was there anything similar”.
18h: Lula speaks directly from Araraquara in the interior of São Paulo, where he was offering condolences to families who lost people in the rains that hit the city.
“The genocidal man who governed the country left nothing in cash,” said Lula, regarding the lack of funds in the Ministry of Cities to deal with natural tragedies in the municipality.
17h58: Ricardo Garcia will be the intervener in the Federal District
17:37 pm: Presidency of the Republic decrees federal intervention in the security of the Federal District
President Lula reads the decree at this moment
17:54 pm: President Lula speaks about the acts of terror in Brasília – “Those people we call fascists invaded the headquarters of the government, Congress and the supreme court…we believe there was a lack of security. All the people who did this will be found and punished.”
Lula said that “there is no precedent in the country’s history for what these people did.”
“We will discover the financiers and they will pay with the force of the law, gestures of vandals and fascists”, stated the president.
17h: The National Association of Public Prosecutors (ANPR) published a note in which it “condemns the coup acts, with clearly terrorist methods, that occurred this Sunday (8/1) in Brasília.”
“The crimes committed must be promptly investigated, with the organizers and participants punished. Since the announcement of the election results, several efforts have been made by members of the Federal Public Ministry to prevent coup acts and stop financing these actions. Security forces cannot remain silent in the face of an obvious affront to the Democratic Rule of Law. It is necessary to hold the planners and financiers of the coup mobilizations accountable and remove all those who fail to fulfill their institutional duty to prevent them.”
The National Association of Public Prosecutors
17h41: Vice President of the Senate convenes crisis cabinet and says he will decide where Congress will meet on Monday (8).
17h39: Governors' Forum offers police forces to reinforce action in DF amid terrorism (G1)
17h36: The Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, asked for the opening of an investigation into the invasion of terrorist Bolsonaro supporters into the headquarters of the Three Powers
17h15: Military Police riot police climb the Planalto Palace ramp, police throw gas bombs in an attempt to clear the public building
16h58: For political scientist and doctor in Social Sciences, Claudio André, the invasion of the National Congress could be even more serious than the Capitol episode in 2021, and the comparisons may not be valid:
“The invasion of the capitol was partial. In Brazil, it is much more serious. They invaded the Brazilian state. They destroyed the STF and the Planalto Palace. They even invaded Congress”
16h: The governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, orders the dismissal of the Secretary of Public Security, Anderson Torres. Official confirmation should come out today through the Official Gazette.
16h: Vandals destroy police car
16h12: Senator Randolfe Rodrigues and PT leader Gleisi Hoffmann are representing the Attorney General of the Republic to order an intervention in Brasília's Public Security.
16h12: Senator Randolfe Rodrigues and PT leader Gleisi Hoffmann are representing the Attorney General of the Republic to order an intervention in Brasília's Public Security.
15h57: Army advances against protesters at Palácio do Planalto
15h50: Bolsonaro protesters invaded the Federal Supreme Court
15h34: The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, took to Twitter to say that he is in Brasília monitoring the situation, and that the forces will be reinforced.
15h30: STF invasion
15h00: See the moment when protesters invaded the National Congress
14h: Previously posted in front of the Army Headquarters, in Brasília, the protesters arranged, via social media, a meeting in front of the Esplanada dos Ministérios on Sunday afternoon. Earlier, observing the scenario that was emerging, Minister Flávio Dino activated the National Force to maintain public order in the capital.
Destroying windows and throwing objects at police officers who provide security for public buildings, Bolsonaro protesters split up in an attempt to invasion of buildings.
See: images of damaged buildings:
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