The president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, has advanced this Monday that the congressmen who denied the havoc left in their wake by the mob of followers of former president Jair Bolsonaro during the attacks of January 8 will be held accountable because «you can’t lie» about what happened.
«All those who have responsibility will be held accountable, including the deputies who were defaming and lying with videos, saying that the aggressions suffered by the Chamber of Deputies were lies,» said Lira.
Lira’s words are a response to the Liberal Party deputy Abílio Brunini, who after the coup assault recorded a video in the green room of the Chamber of Deputies affirming that «there was practically no damage».
«An elected deputy cannot be disclosing facts that do not match reality,» Lira remarked in a meeting with journalists on Monday, reports the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies was one of the spaces assaulted last January 8 by a mob of followers of former president Bolsonaro, who also ransacked the headquarters of the Supreme Court and the Presidency.
After those violent episodes, the Brazilian Congress unanimously approved, without the support of a part of Bolsonarism, the decree of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to assume the security competences of Brasilia due to the omission and connivance of the local authorities, according to the Supreme Court.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
