Brazil Congress storming: Lula's security chief resigns

The apical nationalist information advisor to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has resigned aft video emerged showing the adjutant wrong the statesmanlike palace successful Brasilia during rioting connected 8 January.

Gen Marcos Gonçalves Dias stepped down aft CNN Brasil broadcast CCTV footage of him talking to members of a mob.

The wide denied accusations that helium had facilitated the rioters' entry.

The authorities is present backing a legislature enquiry into the riots.

This comes connected apical of an probe by national police.

Gen Gonçalves Dias said helium had arrived aft the rioters.

CNN Brasil said it had analysed 160 hours of footage from 22 abstracted cameras.

In its report, the broadcaster showed footage of Gen Gonçalves Dias successful the aforesaid corridor arsenic immoderate of the radical who had stormed the building.

CNN says the footage was recorded successful the corridor extracurricular a country starring to the bureau of the president connected the 3rd level of the palace.

The images look to amusement the wide pointing retired the exigency exit to the rioters. There is nary sound, truthful it is not wide what helium says to them.

The wide told Brazilian TV transmission GloboNews that helium "was removing radical from the 3rd and 4th floors truthful that they could beryllium arrested connected the 2nd floor".

Gen Gonçalves Dias argued that his actions had prevented the ransacking of the 3rd and 4th level of the palace.

He added that helium had handed successful his resignation truthful that the probe could proceed "in a transparent way".

Other footage broadcast by CNN appears to amusement members of the Institutional Security Bureau (GSI), which Gen Gonçalves Dias leads, handing retired bottles of h2o to immoderate of the rioters and shaking hands with them.

Gen Gonçalves Dias said those shown handing h2o to the rioters had been removed from their posts and were presently nether investigation.

The statesmanlike palace was 1 of 3 buildings successful Brasilia which rioters opposed to the predetermination of President Lula stormed connected 8 January.

Opponents of the recently elected president had been camping retired successful beforehand of service barracks crossed the state successful an effort astatine convincing the service to forestall the transportation of powerfulness from the outgoing far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, to Lula.

With their vexation increasing aft Lula's swearing-in connected 1 January, they began to congregate successful the capital.

Security forces yet regained power of the concern and detained astir 1,500 people.

But the information forces came nether dense disapproval for not preventing the rioters from entering these cardinal buildings.

The main of information for the superior astatine the clip of the attack, Anderson Torres, is successful jailhouse awaiting proceedings connected charges of sabotaging efforts to support the buildings.

President Lula's predecessor successful office, Jair Bolsonaro, is owed to attest wrong the coming days implicit his alleged relation successful inciting the rioters.

Prosecutors accidental helium fanned the flames by questioning the legitimacy of the predetermination result, which saw him narrowly suffer to Lula.

Lula had opposed the legislature enquiry successful bid to debar diverting governmental absorption distant from his economical measures.

But Institutional Relations Minister Alexandre Padilha told reporters the authorities would present enactment the enquiry arsenic a mode to wide things up aft the resignation of Gen Gonçalves Dias.

Some members of the absorption person accused the authorities of allowing the rioters introduction to the statesmanlike palace.

"That's an absurd conspiracy theory," Mr Padilha said, according to Reuters quality agency. "The leaked footage brought successful a caller governmental information truthful we volition enactment the inquiry, which successful my sentiment volition enactment an extremity to yet different conspiracy theory."