The crowds also broke various computer equipment and an important part of the artistic heritage that the palace treasured, in which there were valuable paintings, sculptures and furniture of great historical value.
The Brazilian authorities found traces of blood, feces and urine inside the Planalto Palace in Brasilia -seat of the Government-, which on Sunday was invaded and vandalized by Bolsonaro radicals, in an attempt to overthrow the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The Minister of the Secretariat of Communication, Paulo Pimenta, declared this Monday before the press that The abundant organic material found in the presidential palace will serve to identify the “criminals” who caused chaos in the Brazilian capital for four and a half hours.
“People said they looked like a gang of hateful people, out of their minds, they looked like a horde of zombies. They ran through the corridors, they broke everything, meaban and they defecated in the corridors, inside the rooms. It was an act of destruction,” Pimenta said.
A group of police experts carefully inspect the building with the aim of finding evidence once morest supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro who participated in the frustrated coup attempt on Sunday.
Thousands of these radical sympathizers, who do not recognize Lula’s victory in the October elections, entered violently and caused extensive damage not only in the Planalto Palace, but also in Congress and the Supreme Court.
Broken windows, scattered glass and bullet cartridges
The headquarters of the three powers of the country are located in a square and were occupied for four and a half hours by those extreme right groups that have been demanding, since the elections, a military “intervention” that returns Bolsonaro to power.
This Monday, with the situation already under control and following 1,500 detainees, it was possible to observe the level of destruction that devastated the buildings that house the Presidency, the Parliament and the Supreme Court. In Planalto, there are plenty of broken windows, glass scattered on the floor and even bullet cartridges, as EFE might verify.
Inside, there was a gallery with the official photographs of the country’s presidents that was destroyed. “The episode that occurred in Brazil is more serious than that of the Capitol” of the United States of January 6, 2021, committed by followers of the former president Donald Trumpbecause “here we witnessed the invasion of the headquarters of the three powers,” said Pimenta.
In the midst of the destruction, President Lula, who assumed power on January 1, decided to dispatch from the Planalto Palace, in a show of absolute institutional normality. “We are not going to tolerate any act that aims to weaken democracy and the Constitution,” Pimenta said.
