More than 400 people were arrested in Brazil after thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings, a local governor says.
stormed government buildings, according to a local governor.
Rioters swarmed into the country’s congress, supreme court, and presidential palace to protest Bolsonaro’s loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in what the right-wing demonstrators baselessly claim was a stolen election. “I come to inform you that more than 400 people have already been arrested and will pay for the crimes committed,” Ibaneis Rocha, the governor of Brazil’s capital district,
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