Two explosions with apparent political motivation occurred on Wednesday (Thursday morning in Spain) near the Supreme Court of Brazil. First, explosives placed inside a car parked on the street, next to a building attached to the Chamber of Deputies, were detonated. Subsequently, a man detonated an explosive at the door of the Supreme Court after failing to gain access to the interior of the building and died.
The Police have confirmed the identity of the owner of the car, Francisco Wanderley Luiz, known as Tiu França, a member of the Liberal Party (PL) of former ultra-president Jair Bolsonaro. However, it is not known if the owner of the vehicle is the alleged suicide bomber, who could not be identified since the police have not been able to carry out a forensic examination of the body, which was mutilated by the explosion and still with explosives in the body. .
According to the vice-governor of Brasilia, Celina Leão, preliminary information indicates that the subject who committed the suicide attack was the same one who activated the explosion of the car, but she said that it cannot yet be confirmed that it is the owner of the vehicle.
After the explosions, the center of Brasilia was armored by the Police and the Army, who carried out searches in the area for other possible devices. The Supreme Court suspended the session that was being held at that time and the Chamber of Deputies, located nearby, was evacuated about two hours later.
The Federal Police took over the investigation of the case and will carry out the investigations “with rigor and speed,” according to Brazil’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, in a message on social networks. The Minister of Justice, Ricardo Lewandowski, also expressed himself in the same sense and assured that the security forces “are prepared to ensure the functioning of the established powers.”
The link with Bolsonaro
The person identified as the owner of the vehicle, Tiu França, was a candidate for councilor in the 2020 elections in the municipality of Rio Sul, in the state of Santa Catarina, and a few hours before the attack, he posted threats on his Facebook page.
In those messages, now deleted by the platform, he said that the Police had 72 hours to “disarm the bomb” that is in the house of several “communists”, among whom he cited three former Brazilian presidents and a famous journalist. Likewise, he published a series of emoticons of coffins and bombs, and calls to the Armed Forces to start a “revolution.”
The Plaza de los Tres Poderes, where the headquarters of the Government, Parliament and the Supreme Court are located, was the scene of the attack by thousands of extremists who on January 8, 2023 tried to incite a coup against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Gleisi Hoffmann, the president of the Workers’ Party (PT), Lula’s party, stated that the “very serious” events of this Wednesday “repeat the scenario, the objectives and the violence of January 8.”
“The car with explosives in the Chamber of Deputies belongs to a candidate for councilor of the PL of Santa Catarina. There are many elements that alert us to remain vigilant in defense of democracy. We know who her enemies are and we will know how to defend her once again,” Hoffmann said on social media.
For the attack of January 8, 2023, nearly 1,600 people have been accused by the Prosecutor’s Office, including executors, inciters and financiers of the attacks. Of them, 227 have been sentenced by the Supreme Court as perpetrators of the attacks to sentences of between 3 and 17 years in prison, for crimes that include attempted coup d’état and damage to public property.
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