In a demonstration of unity of the Republic, President Lula brought together in the capital the main leaders of the legislative and judicial powers. At least 1,500 far -right activists have been arrested.
by Bruno Meyerfeld (Rio de Janeiro, correspondent) and Anne Vigna (Brasilia, Special Envoy)
It is a Brasilia groggy who woke up on Monday January 9, 2023. Her beating heart, the Place des Trois-Pouvoirs, still bears the stigma of the clashes of the day before, who saw thousands of extreme activists right to bag the institutions of the Republic.
Broken windows, ripped armchairs, tagged walls, heaps of wood and wet papers … Under the cloudy sky, there is a disturbing silence, barely broken by the back and forth of cleaning teams. Balais armies, the latter are busy. The garbage and debris are thrown into large trash cans. Office chairs are drafted even in the Bassins of the Congress … Ana Carina, 52, black cleaning lady working at the presidential palace of the planalto, is smiling but exhausted: “I am so sad that I find it difficult to speak. ‘I cried a lot. But we couldn’t lower our heads, we raised our sleeves and we will clean everything, “she says.
On the place, it is an impression of desolation. Everything is to be rebuilt, starting with democracy: this Sunday, four decades of the Republic were thrown through the windows of the palaces designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer. Strong image: at the entrance to the Planalto, the portraits of the thirty -nine presidents of Brazil were torn and broken on the ground – with the exception of one, that of Jair Bolsonaro, probably carried away as a memory by a rioter.
But after the amazement quickly came the repression. During the night of Sunday to Monday, judge Alexandre de Moraes, member of the Federal Supreme and Bane Court of the Bolsonarists, ordered, “total dissolution” within twenty-four hours of far-right camps. The magistrate also summoned the capital’s hotels to provide the names of their customers, and called the police to use surveillance cameras and social networks to track the putschists.
“A Brazilian capitol”
Long passive, the generals had no choice but to comply. Monday, at 7 a.m., soldiers and police surrounded the Brasilia camp, located opposite the army headquarters. Awakened to the megaphone, the Bolsonaro “soldiers” quickly returned. Most had cautiously left the day before, fleeing the capital, sometimes by bus, hiding their “Seleçao” jerseys, the national football team. The soldiers were able to quietly remove the tents. “Tomorrow, this camp will no longer exist,” said a spokesperson for the army to journalists present.
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