‘Lula government facilitated vandalism in Brasilia to play the victim,’ says governor of second largest Brazilian state

In an interview with Rádio Gaúcha on Monday (Jan. 16), the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (Novo), said the Lula Government facilitated the acts in Brasilia, which took place on Jan. 8, to “play the victim”.

The governor also spoke of a mistake by the protesters who attacked the headquarters of the Three Powers but criticized the generalization and called for investigations.

“It seems to me that there was a mistake by the radical right, which is a minority.”

“The Federal Government also made a mistake, perhaps even a deliberate one, which turned a blind eye so that the worst would happen and it would play the victim. This is an assumption. But the investigations will point out if it was that,” Zema said in the interview.

“To confuse a good citizen with a depredator is a very serious mistake. We should punish those people who did the vandalism. Now, extending this to those demonstrating orderly is a very different situation,” said the governor of Minas Gerais, the second most populous after São Paulo.

Zema also criticized the removal of DF Governor Ibaneis Rocha.

He said the decision by Alexandre de Moraes, STF Justice, was “premature, unnecessary, and unfair.

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