Lula started wearing a bulletproof vest

Lula started wearing a bulletproof vest

The decision was made after a man, who was arrested, launched against Lula’s followers, in Cinelandiaa plastic bottle with a low-impact explosive filled with excrement that fell near a fence, causing no injuries.

This was the second attack against supporters of the former president of Brazil in less than a month, after a militant rural businessman of the president was arrested this week Jair Bolsonaro in Uberabastate of Minas Gerais, for using a drone last June that launched agrochemicals against the public.

The beginning of the use of bulletproof vests in the campaign was not denied to Télam by Lula’s press office. “We will not comment on security issues for the former president,” said an official spokesman for the former president, who is the favorite to beat President Jair Bolsonaro in the first round.

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The homemade bomb had excrement inside a bottle and was a mixture of pyrotechnics used in the Juninas festivals, the traditional celebrations of Saint John that extend for more than a month throughout Brazil.

“We want a quick investigation into this attack,” the president of Rio’s Legislative Assembly, Andre Cecilianocandidate for senator workers party in the October elections.

Bolsonaro encouraged his followers last night to “do something before the election“in favor of what he calls the possibility of fraud against him, something for which he has not presented evidence.

Bolsonaro announced that he will summon the ambassadors to show episodes of fraud in the Brazilian electoral process of 2018 and 2014.

Source: Ambito

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