Supporters of Brazil's defeated Bolsonaro attack police headquarters - Reuters

BRASILIA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Supporters of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro connected Monday attempted to invade the national constabulary office successful the superior Brasilia, successful a flash of post-election unit connected the time the president's electoral decision was certified.

Reuters witnesses saw Bolsonaro supporters, galore successful their trademark yellowish nationalist shot jerseys oregon draped successful Brazilian flags, confronting information forces astatine constabulary headquarters. Police fired stun grenades and teardrop state to disperse the crowd. Nearby buses and cars were acceptable connected fire.

Federal constabulary said "disturbances" adjacent the office were being handled with enactment from superior information forces.

The unit unfolded aft a Bolsonaro protagonist was detained for allegedly organizing convulsive "anti-democratic acts," according to the justice who ordered his arrest.

Earlier connected Monday, the national electoral tribunal (TSE) certified the Oct. 30 predetermination triumph of Bolsonaro's leftist rival, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, arsenic president. After months of baseless suggestions that Brazil's voting strategy is susceptible to fraud, Bolsonaro has neither conceded decision to Lula nor has helium formally blocked the handover of power.

But immoderate of the president's astir diehard supporters person blocked highways successful protestation and camped retired successful beforehand of service barracks, calling for a subject coup to barroom Lula from office.

Hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters gathered extracurricular the statesmanlike residence connected Monday day with banners calling for "military intervention." The president joined them for a nationalist supplication but did not code the crowd.

"There's not going to beryllium an inauguration," said Jose Trindade, 58, 1 of the Bolsonaro supporters successful the crowd. "Bolsonaro was re-elected, but they stole it. So lone the service tin enactment things successful order."

The conspiracy theories and consequent unit person rekindled memories of the January 2021 penetration of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump. It besides raises information concerns astir Jan. 1, erstwhile Lula takes bureau successful a nationalist ceremonial successful Brasilia.

Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, a cardinal Lula aide, said determination were concerns astir the carnal information of Lula and Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin, arsenic protesters had surrounded the edifice wherever helium is staying successful Brasilia. Lula's squad denied reports that Lula would beryllium removed from the edifice by helicopter.

Brasilia's nationalist information officials said they had secured the country astir Lula's hotel, and urged motorists to debar the halfway of the metropolis wherever galore roads had been closed.

SPARKED BY ARREST

The unit successful Brasilia came aft Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has led probes into Bolsonaro and his allies, connected Monday ordered the impermanent apprehension of José Acácio Serere Xavante for allegedly carrying retired anti-democratic acts.

Xavante, an indigenous leader, is among the Bolsonaro supporters who person protested successful defiance of the Oct. 30 predetermination result.

"I cannot judge criminals reigning successful Brasil," Xavante tweeted past month. "Lula cannot beryllium certified."

Last week, Bolsonaro broke weeks of post-election soundlessness to accidental that his concern "hurts my soul."

"Who decides wherever I spell are you. Who decides which mode the equipped forces spell are you," Bolsonaro told his supporters astatine the gates of the statesmanlike residence connected Friday.

In a statement, the Supreme Court said Moraes "decreed the impermanent arrest, for 10 days, of the indigenous José Acácio Serere Xavante, owed to grounds of the committee of crimes of threat, persecution and convulsive abolition of the Democratic State of Law."

It said Xavante had led protests crossed Brasilia and had utilized "his presumption arsenic main of the Xavante radical to enlist indigenous and non-indigenous radical to perpetrate crimes," threatening Lula and Supreme Court justices.

Xavante had "expressly summoned equipped radical to forestall the certification of elected" politicians, the connection added.

Reporting by Ueslei Marcelino and Victor Borges; Additional reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello and Carolina Pulice; Editing by Leslie Adler and Stephen Coates

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