Rioters stormed Brazil’s congress, leaving a bizarre trail of destruction and fury in their wake
At the senate museum, plaques still read: “Please do not touch the artwork.” But rioters ignored those as they swept into the exhibit room and began wrecking hundreds of years of Brazilian art and political history.
“Scumbags,” one cleaning lady fumed of the putschists as she and dozens of others swept congress’s glass-covered blue and lime green carpets and engineers checked for structural damage. “Bottles, glass, [rubber] bullets,” one of the workers said of the objects being retrieved from the water mirror as the clean-up continued.The rioters made it into the inner sanctum of what should be one of Brazil’s most secure addresses, leaving a bizarre trail of destruction and fury in their wake and many questions over how such a politically-sensitive building could have been left so exposed.
Amorim, who is Brazil’s former defense minister, said he was struggling to fathom how security forces and intelligence agencies had failed to detect or stop the threat. “The resistance only came after the deed had been done – it’s as if it was allowed to happen,” he said.
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