the STF monitors extremists for fear of an attack on Trump

the STF monitors extremists for fear of an attack on Trump

The fear of the STF is that groups that support the president Jair Bolsonarowho has spent months encouraging the fantasy of a electoral fraudtry to emulate the storming the capitol of the United States carried out by Trump supporters to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as president-elect, in January 2021.

“No one suddenly appeared in front of the Capitol,” one of Brazil’s highest court judges told CNN.

The violent acts add up

Last week, the influencer was arrested Ivan Rejane, who had made several calls to his followers to carry out attacks against STF ministers. The Federal Police is on the trail of a network of extremists who accompany him in these plans.

Fearing that violence will break out in Brazil around the October 2 elections, in which Bolsonaro will face the former president Lula da Silvathe Supreme Electoral Court is defining protocols on how it will disclose the results of the first round and, eventually, the ballot and also how it will act afterwards, since two months will pass until the new government takes office.

Weeks ago, a leader of the workers party (PT, Lula da Silva’s force) in Foz de Iguazú was shot to death on his birthday by a police officer sympathetic to Bolsonaro.

Days before, the former president and favorite according to voting intention polls began to wear a bulletproof vest in his acts for fear of an attack against him, after an attack on his followers in Rio de Janeiro.

Source: Ambito

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