Monitoring Desk
BRASILIA: Brazilian police used tear gas on Sunday to try to repel hundreds of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro after they stormed onto Congress grounds one week after President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration.
Authorities had cordoned off the area around the parliament building in Brasilia. Still, Bolsonaro backers who refused to accept leftist Lula’s election victory broke through, marched up ramps, and gathered on the roof of the modernist building, AFP reported.
Bolsonaro’s supporters gather at Brazil’s congress
It is understood the supporters broke through a blockade set up by security forces and invaded the ministries building and Congress, video shows.
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According to CNN Brasil, protesters also invaded the Planalto Palace’s car park.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula Silva is on an official trip to Sao Paulo state.
