Security footage shows Lula’s security minister was present at the “attack on the headquarters of the three powers” on Jan. 8

The invasion of the Three Powers buildings in the Brazilian capital last January 8, the culmination of months of protests against the victory of Lula da Silva, served the leftist government to launch a massive campaign of arbitrary arrests against the opposition.

Journalists, business people, politicians, and even social media influencers who supported the electoral fraud theory were arrested.

Hundreds of media outlets were blocked, including La Derecha Diario, which was inaccessible in Brazil without VPN.

Prominent right-wing figures were quick to warn that the “assault on the Three Powers” could have been planned by Lula’s government forces to justify this advance against the opposition.

Just as in the January 6, 2021 “assault on the Capitol” in Washington, DC, little police presence, open doors, and empty buildings were the norm.

But the most important confirmation so far came this Wednesday 19, when CNN, a media aligned with Lula, showed images that placed the head of Lula’s Security portfolio in the focus of the demonstrations.

In the videos, Marco Gonçalves Dias, head of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), the closest thing to a Security Minister in other countries such as Argentina, is circulating and guiding the invaders who destroyed the Planalto Palace on that controversial day.

The broadcaster, which had been defending Lula but had to change its discourse due to the viralization of the news, had exclusive access to the images of the internal circuit of 22 cameras of the Executive Power headquarters and analyzed more than 160 hours.

SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

The minister resigned in the afternoon of the day after the video was published this Wednesday, April 19.

He is accused of having brought costumed demonstrators to incite violence in what had been so far massive but peaceful demonstrations.

At 4:29 pm on that fateful January 8, two internal security cameras captured him during the invasion of the Planalto Palace.

At first, he appears walking alone on the third floor of the Palace, in the anteroom of the office of the President of the Republic. Soon, Gonçalves Dias tries to open two doors and then enters the cabinet.

Minutes later, the minister appears, walking down the same hallway with some invaders, guiding them and apparently telling him what to do.

The images suggest that he would indicate the emergency exit to the group of invaders after committing the destruction.

Later, other members of the GSI also appeared in the images, indicating the exit to the invaders on the third floor of the Planalto Palace.

It should be noted that the invasion occurred on a Sunday, and Lula was traveling with his entire cabinet in São Paulo, so he had no reason to be at the Government House then.

Besides, it is strange that in the frenzy of the “assault,” the demonstrators paid no attention to a minister they had between their eyebrows.

After disclosing the images in the media and social networks, pro-Bolsonaro parliamentarians demanded that a Parliamentary Investigative Commission (CPMI) be called on January 8.

The PT supporters initially requested it but quickly backed down, realizing that instead of condemning Bolsonaro for “inciting violence”, it would uncover a background organization commanded by their leader, Lula da Silva.

With information from La Derecha Diario

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