After Lula da Silva took office (current minister Anderson Torres, like everyone else in the government, assumed his duties on January 1, pressured by the future Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flavio Dino. Jair Bolsonaro simply disappeared), Brasilia’s Civil Police (Judiciaria) on Saturday night , was arrested on Christmas Eve for allegedly trying to detonate a truck filled with jet fuel at the airport in Brazil’s federal capital city. . The man who admitted his intention to carry out a terrorist attack with unimaginable consequences is named Jorge Washington de Oliveira Sosa, 54 years old and a fanatical follower of Jair Bolsonaro.
In the apartment where Bolsonaro has lived since his defeat by Lula da Silva on October 30, where he was arrested, police found a veritable cache of weapons, including two military-grade rifles, a rifle, a revolver and more than a thousand pieces of ammunition. Ammunition of various capacities. This information was provided by Robson Candido, Director General of the Police in Brasilia, and the prisoner considered the political meaning of the attempted attack to be arbitrary and that it was not caused by the driver of the fuel truck. George attached a pump and when he arrived he realized something strange was attached to the vehicle and called the police.
According to Robson, George said with planned tragedy that the truck could explode while refueling a plane full of passengers and kill hundreds of people, wanting to draw attention to what he and other extremists called fraud. Presidential election that gave victory to Lula da Silva. He argues that Jair Bolsonaro, despite being defeated in Brazil’s presidential election, remains president, and he imagines that he will provoke a mass tragedy and force the armed forces to intervene and seize power. In office indefinitely.
George Washington was a garment entrepreneur in the city of Santarem in the northern Brazilian state of Pará, and he moved to Brasilia after Bolsonaro’s defeat. He rented an arrested apartment in Brasilia and during the day reinforced a group of militants camped near military headquarters demanding military intervention to keep Bolsonaro in power.
According to the information of the General Director of Police, with the seized weapons, the prisoner traveled in his own car from Santarem to Brasilia, but tried to fuel the strong explosives, usually used in gold mines and quarries. The truck exploded. , was later sent to him, meaning other people were involved in the attempted attack. Jair Bolsonaro, who has kept his vow of silence since the day of his election defeat, has not commented on the attempted terror attack by an ally, but this Saturday afternoon he visited the coup encampment around the headquarters and did not speak. Without anyone, he parked the vehicle for a few seconds near the militants, which was understood as a show of support and encouragement.