
Over 400 people were arrested on Sunday after supporters of Brazil‘s former president Jair Bolsonaro broke through a blockade set up by security forces and invaded ministries and the Congress building in the capital Brasília on Sunday, in violence reminscent of the January 6 storming of the US capital in 2021.
“We continue working to identify all the others who participated in these terrorist acts this afternoon in the Federal District,” the governor of Brasília, Ibaneis Rocha, wrote on Twitter on Sunday evening. “We continue to work to restore order.”