By Flora Charner,Marcia Reverdosa,Rodrigo Pedroso,Dakin Andone,Alaa Elassar,Heather Chen
CNN
January 9, 2023
Brazilian President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva on Sunday pledged to punish hundreds of supporters of the country’s former leader Jair Bolsonaro after they stormed major government buildings, smashing windows and using furniture to form barricades against security forces.
In a news conference, Lula da Silva described events in the capital Brasilia as “barbaric” and said “a lack of security” had allowed Bolsonaro’s “fascist” supporters to breach barriers set up by the Armed Forces outside the congressional building, the Supreme Court and the Planalto Presidential Palace.
“These people are everything that is abominable in politics,” he said, adding that “all the people who did this will be found and punished.”