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One dead after explosions near Supreme Court
A person was found dead Wednesday evening near the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasília after two explosions of undetermined origin.
Police monitor the crime scene where a man died after an explosion in front of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil in Brasília, Brazil, November 13, 2024.
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“We can confirm that there is a body before the Federal Supreme Court,” a federal police spokesperson told AFP. An investigation has been opened. The body was seen on the spot by an AFP photographer.
Earlier, in a statement, the court said that at the end of Wednesday's session, “two loud explosions were heard and the judges were evacuated from the building for safety.” Staff on site were also evacuated “as a precautionary measure”.
The Supreme Court is located in Three Powers Square, the heart of Brazilian democracy, where it faces the presidential palace and Parliament.
Closed sector
The presidential palace is closed and no one can enter, noted an AFP photographer. The entire square is cordoned off by an imposing deployment of security forces.
Left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was not at the presidential palace at the time of the explosions, a presidential spokesperson told AFP.
On January 8, 2023, a week after Lula's return to power, thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, former far-right head of state defeated in the presidential election at the end of 2022, stormed and ransacked the seats institutions on the Place des Trois-Pouvoirs. The authorities had finally regained control of the situation.
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