The dismantling of the camp of supporters of Bolsonaro that called for a coup by the Army leaves at least 1,200 detainees

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The Brazilian police authorities have finished this Monday definitively lifting the last redoubt of the camp erected a little over two months ago by the followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro at the gates of the Army headquarters in Brasilia, with the last arrest of 1,200 people.

Agents of the Military Police of Brasilia and of the National Security Force They have come at 7:00 a.m. (local time) this Monday to warn the last ones who persisted in remaining in the camp where the assault on the headquarters of the three powers took place that they had one hour to leave the place.

The evacuation has taken place without confrontations, although some arrests have been registered, once the majority of those who had been camped chose to leave before the last notice from the authorities led by the defense ministers, Jose Mucioand the Civil House, Rui Costa, tell Brazilian media.

The Government of Brasilia has chartered about forty buses to take out some 1,200 stragglers who still remained in the camp and be transferred to Federal Police facilities, where they will be interrogated.

Throughout the morning of this Monday, the agents began the dismantling of a camp after the Army did not allow the entry of the Police on Sunday night. According to government sources to which the newspaper ‘O Globo’ had access, the refusal could be motivated because many of the campers were relatives and acquaintances of the military.

In response, the Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraesone of the goals of the radicals ordered the dismantling of the camp and the temporary dismissal of the governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, after the anti-democratic acts that took place on Sunday, with the assault on the headquarters of the three powers.

Replacing Rocha, she will be the lieutenant governor Celina Leão who will assume the leadership of the capital, over which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decreed federal intervention to assume security powers.

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