Lula da Silva’s team guarantees peaceful inauguration despite terrorist threat

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s transition team today ensured that next Sunday’s inauguration ceremony would be peaceful despite what they see as terrorist threats from poll-denying extremists.

“It will not be small terrorist groups that will wall up Brazilian democracy. They have no place, they will not have a place didn’t win and won’t winBrazil’s future Justice Minister Flavio Dino said of threats from far-right groups supporting outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro.

Anxiety about the safety of tenure was raised over the weekend when Brasilia police defused a bomb planted in a fuel truck, which, according to investigators, was supposed to explode at the airport in the Brazilian capital.

The man responsible for the failed attack was arrested and confessed to visiting the Bolsonarist camp set up two months ago in front of the army barracks in Brasilia. demand a military coup which prevents the inauguration of Lula da Silva and keeps Bolsonaro in power despite losing the October presidential election.

The detainee admitted that his goal was to sow chaos and create conditions for forcing a coup, which supporters of the most radical Bolsonarists demand, despite the fact that the generals ignored all these pressures.

Dino emphasized at a press conference that the police and military authorities “committed to democracyand that all alleged terrorist acts will be investigated “in accordance with the law.”

The future minister insisted on the total mobilization of the state security organs during the inauguration of Lula da Silva, in order to guarantee peace during the ceremony, which, in his opinion, will be “triumph of democracy🇧🇷

At least 17 heads of state and government are expected to attend Lula da Silva’s inauguration, including, among others, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, as well as the President of Germany, the King of Spain and the leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia. , Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Around 300,000 people are also expected to attend a party prepared by Lula’s team, which will include a show featuring dozens of popular artists.

At the same press conference, future defense minister José Musiu stated that the authorities were not concerned about the camps set up in front of the barracks, which he said were “generally peaceful”.

However, Musio stated that “when a citizen plants a bomb that can destroy a plane with hundreds of people, we enter the field of terrorism” and that this type of behavior “will fight with all cruelty🇧🇷

Mushio added that the traffic in front of the barracks was decreasing day by day and expected the traffic to dissipate naturally in the next few days.

However, the future Minister of Defense specified that from January 1, the new government will be able to take the measures it deems necessary if these mobilizations continue.