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Brazil riot police deploy at Bolsonaro backers’ camp after capital stormed

Brazil riot police deploy at Bolsonaro backers’ camp after capital stormed

ANTHONY BOADLE and SERGIO QUEIROZ BRAZILIAN police deployed at a camp of supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday, a day after rioters launched the worst attack on Brazil's state institutions since its return to democracy in the 1980s. Hundreds of police in riot gear and some on horseback amassed at the encampment near Brasilia's army headquarters, while soldiers in the area withdrew, Reuters witnesses said, after Sunday's storming by thousands of Bolsonaro's backers of Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro's leftist rival who took office on Jan.…
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