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Brazil Ex President's Supporters Raid Congress, Supreme Court
The area around the parliament building in Brasilia had been cordoned off. Bolsonaro responded to the raids by condemning the "pillaging and invasions" at the National Congress, Presidential palace. "We will find out who these vandals are, and they will be brought down with the full force of the law," he added. Social media footage showed rioters breaking doors and windows to enter the Congress building, then streaming inside en masse, trashing lawmakers' offices and using the sloped speaker's dais on the floor of the legislature as a slide as they shouted insults directed at the absent lawmakers. Lula narrowly won the runoff by a score of 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent. Chilean President Gabriel Boric called the riots a "cowardly and vile attack on democracy," Colombia's Gustavo Petro tweeted that "Fascism has decided to strike a blow," and Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard voiced the country's "full support" for Lula. Source - NDTV #brazil
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