- Security forces have detained 1,500 people after supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília
- Thousands of demonstrators ransacked the Congress building as well as the presidential palace, and Supreme Court on Sunday
- Brazilian authorities have begun to dismantle protest camps outside the army’s headquarters in the capital and at other sites
- Bolsonaro lost the presidential election to left-wing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October after sowing unsubstantiated claims about voting systems
- Many of his supporters have refused to accept the result and some have been camping outside army buildings around the country calling for a military intervention
- Bolsonaro has denied encouraging Sunday’s attack, saying what happened had gone beyond democratic protest
- His wife says he is under observation in hospital in Florida for abdominal pain stemming from when he was stabbed in 2018
- World leaders including US President Joe Biden have condemned the riots as an attack on democracy
Source : BBC
