Investigators are working on two avenues which are not mutually exclusive, those of a “terrorist act” and an attempt at “violent abolition of the rule of law”, indicated Andrei Passos Rodrigues during a press conference. “This is not an isolated event,” he added, the day after the death of a man carrying explosives after trying in vain to enter the Supreme Court building.
This building is located on the Place des Trois Pouvoirs, where it faces the presidential palace and the Parliament. According to Andrei Passos Rodrigues, the first elements of the police investigation show indications of “long-term preparation” of this “individual act” and possible “links” with the riots of January 8, 2023 in the Brazilian capital .
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That day, a week after the return to power of left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, former far-right head of state defeated in the presidential election at the end of 2022, took stormed and ransacked the headquarters of the institutions in this same Place des Trois Pouvoirs.
The attacker, Francisco Wanderley Luiz, who ran for a municipal councilor position in 2020 under the colors of Jair Bolsonaro's Liberal Party, is originally from Santa Catarina (south), but had been in Brasília for several months.
