“I am convinced that the door of the Planalto Palace was opened for the people to enter, because no door had been broken,” the leftist leader said during his first breakfast with reporters since his January 1 inauguration. “That means someone facilitated their entry here,” he insisted.
Several thousand supporters of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who refused to admit his electoral defeat once morest Lula at the end of October, caused chaos in the capital on Sunday by invading the presidential palace, as well as the Supreme Court and Congress.
They destroyed everything in their path, including works of art. More than 2,000 people were arrested following the unrest and 1,159 of them were jailed, according to the latest figures from authorities.
Authorities are investigating who organized the attack and how the protesters were financed.
