The coup risk has returned and now we move on to the calculation of the damages and the reaction of the institutions. The Brazilian police force has 1.500 Bolsonarists arrested who participated in the assault on the building of the three powers, while in Florida, the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is admitted to AdventHealth Celebration, a hospital outside Orlando for severe abdominal pain.
What is happening in Brazil
Late Sunday evening the police forces regained control of the buildings of power - Government, Congress and the Supreme Court - and the hunt for those responsible for the assault on the institutions that made the South American giant's democracy waver for a few hours is still underway. Brazilian institutions have been united in condemning the event, but the whole country is in shock. The Brazilian media speak of "the most serious act against Brazilian democracy since the end of the dictatorship", while the behavior of the police remains under observation, which has shown itself to be totally unprepared and unable to muster sufficient forces to stop the attack. Indeed, controversy is raging over the shots of some agents who seemed to fraternize with the rioters. After Lula, who spoke of "terrorist acts" and "fascist fanatics", the harsh reaction of the president of the Supreme Court also arrived, Rosa Weber. "We will act - he declared - so that the terrorists who have participated in these acts are tried and punished in an exemplary way".
To try to understand how such a thing could have happened, the Brazilian Senate will set up a Parliamentary commission of inquiry. But it is a fact that both the governor of the federal district of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, and above all his security minister, Anderson Torres, a Bolsonaro man, had assured the "absolutely peaceful" nature of the mobilization. This makes us understand why, at the time of the assault, Lula was in the state of São Paulo, visiting the flooded areas of Araquara. And it is from there that the president signed the decree to sanction the immediate federal government intervention of Brasilia and the appointment of Rodrigo Garcia Cappelli as head of the operation.
At the moment they would be 1.500 people arrested by the police with the support of the army, accused in turn of being too "indulgent" with the Bolsonarists.
Will Bolsonaro be extradited?
Meantime Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized to an Orlando clinic for "severe abdominal pain." The former president has tried to distance himself from the acts of violence by defining them "illegal" and which, however, in his opinion, would not be different from those committed by left-wing militants in 2013 and 2017. Lula thinks very differently, who accused him publicly to have fomented and even instigated his followers to storm the palaces of the three powers.
In Brazil, however, people are already thinking about the future. Will Bolsonaro be extradited to Brazil? The hypothesis has been taken into consideration by the media and by some Brazilian parliamentarians, but the US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has made it known that for the moment nonone required in this sense it came from Brazil.
Bolsonaro had gone to Florida on December 30 to avoid participating in Lula's inauguration, following in the footsteps of his friend Donald Trump who refused to participate in the ceremony for Biden two years ago.
After the assault, the former president wrote on Twitter: “Peaceful demonstrations, in accordance with the law, are part of democracy. However, looting and invasions of public buildings, such as those that occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, are outside the rules".
