Supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with the police during a demonstration outside Brazil’s National Congress headquarters in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed government buildings in scenes that evoke the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
Images and videos shared on social media showed Bolsonaro supporters reportedly ransacking Brazil’s National Congress building, Supreme Court and the presidential palace.
Brazilian police used tear gas Sunday to try to repel hundreds of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro after they stormed onto Congress grounds one week after President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, an AFP photographer witnessed.
The area around the parliament building in Brasilia had been cordoned off by authorities, but Bolsonaro backers who refuse to accept leftist Lula’s election victory broke through, marched up ramps and gathered on a roof of the modernist building.
Members of former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement have been largely supportive of Bolsonaro’s bid to overturn the country’s election.
