During the storming of the government district in Brasília, radical supporters of Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro (67) caused damage of at least three million reais (about CHF 530,000) in the Chamber of Deputies alone. However, the sum of the provisional estimate only covers destroyed furniture, windows and computers that could be replaced, the Chamber of Deputies announced on Tuesday.
The value of the destroyed and stolen works of art, on the other hand, cannot yet be estimated. The attackers had broken into not only the Chamber of Deputies, but also the seat of government and the Supreme Court, rioting in the offices and boardrooms. Estimates are not available for these buildings.
Radical Bolsonaro supporters briefly took control of the control centers of the main state authorities in the South American country on Sunday. It took security forces hours to bring the situation under control. (SDA)