Supporters of Brazilian far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed the Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential in the capital, Brasilia.
Videos on social media showed Bolsonaro supporters smashing windows and furniture of the national Congress and Supreme Court buildings and climbing the on the roofs on Sunday. The Congress building is where Brazil’s Senate and Chamber of Deputies conducts its legislative business.
Images on TV channel Globo News also showed protesters roaming the presidential palace, many of them wearing green and yellow, the colors of the flag that have also come to symbolize the Bolsonaro government.
Security forces used tear gas in an apparently failed effort to repel the demonstrators. Local media estimated about 3,000 people were involved in the incident.
Reporting from Rio de Janeiro, Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiew, said that Bolsonaro supporters have been camped out in Brasilia since the former president’s election loss to left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in late October.
Source: Jeera.
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