Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro condemned “pillaging and invasions of public buildings” Sunday after a whole lot of his supporters stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court.

Bolsonaro rejected what he referred to as new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s “baseless” accusations that he incited the invasion of the seat of energy in Brasilia. Writing on Twitter, the ex-president — who left Brazil for the US state of Florida final month on the second-to-last day of his time period — additionally defended the proper to “peaceful protests.”