Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro stormed into the nation’s presidential palace, Congress and ministries’ constructing, it was reported. Images shared on social media confirmed hundreds of individuals, in Brazil’s yellow and inexperienced flag, getting into the Congress constructing within the capital metropolis Brasilia, Associated Press reported.

The assault got here after a protest in opposition to the Brazil’s president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration final week by the helps of the previous president. Following the breach, the world across the parliament constructing in Brasilia had been cordoned off by authorities, AFP reported including that a whole lot of Jair Bolsonaro backers broke via, marched up ramps and gathered on a roof.

The startling photos on social media had been just like the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol constructing by supporters of then-president Donald Trump, who has been a Jair Bolsonaro ally.

In order to quell the protests, safety forces used tear fuel. Jair Bolsonaro was narrowly defeated by Lula within the second spherical of the presidential election in October final 12 months. He left Brazil in December and traveled to Florida within the US the place Donald Trump now lives.