Investigations have begun to see who was responsible for letting backers of former President Jair Bolsonaro storm and vandalize the presidential palace
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government mob ransack the seat of power in Brasilia, and promised to weed out hardcore supporters of his predecessor.
Lula has also stepped up criticism of the army for not doing anything to discourage the two-month-old encampment of Bolsonaro supporters outside its headquarters, where they have been clamouring for the military to overturn the result of the October elections.
Brasilia Governor Ibaneis Rocha, a Bolsonaro ally, was among the first blamed for security lapses. He was suspended from office on Sunday by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who also ordered the arrest of his security chief and head of police. A presidential spokesman told Reuters that computers were taken from the National Security Adviser’s office and hard drives containing confidential information had disappeared. Boxes of taser guns were emptied, said spokesman Guto Guterres.
Government officials said it remained unclear how soldiers or policemen who sympathize with demonstrators’ calls for a military coup would be identified or removed.
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