The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, decreed this Sunday the federal intervention in the Federal District after the attack by Bolsonaro forces on the Congress of the Republic, the Planalto Palace and the headquarters of the Federal Supreme Court.
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The decree, signed by the Brazilian president and which enters into force this Sunday, states that this intervention will take place until January 31, 2023, and the objective “is to put an end to the serious threat to public order in the State in which Federal District”.
The executive secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Ricardo García Cappelli, was nominated for the responsibility of Controller, Lula da Silva announced. In addition, she stated that the people responsible for this act, which has generated a unanimous condemnation, will be punished.
In the same way, he blamed former president Jair Bolsonaro for encouraging these attacks. “Whoever did this will be found and punished. Democracy guarantees the right to free expression, but it also requires that people respect institutions. There is no precedent in the country’s history of what they did today. That is why they must be punished ”, he reaffirmed.
Meanwhile, he noted that the responsibility of the Brasilia police forces will also be investigated, as well as the actions of the parties that supported them. “And we are going to find out who are the financiers of those who went to Brasilia today, and they will all pay with the force of law,” said the Brazilian head of state.
After his visit to the municipality of Araraquara, in the state of São Paulo, the president specified that “they took advantage of the silence on Sunday, when we are still forming the Government, to do what they did. And you know that there are several speeches by the former president encouraging that. And that is also his responsibility and that of the parties that supported him,” he said.