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France 24
France 24
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Leela JACINTO

Brazil riots raise questions of efficiency and loyalty of security forces

Jair Bolsonaro's supporters sit in front of police in the presidential palace after storming it in Brasilia, Brazil, January 8, 2023. © Eraldo Peres, AP

The storming of Brazil’s seat of power by a mob of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro has put the spotlight on Brazil’s security forces, raising questions about their unpreparedness and incompetence, and perhaps even their complicity with protesters demanding the overturning of a democractic vote. 

On Sunday evening, just hours after rioters stormed Brazil’s seat of power in a shocking, but entirely foreseen, attack on democracy, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tore into the country’s security forces.

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