The demonstrators were also denounced by Federal Supreme Court judges, opposition governors and former Justice Minister Sergio Moru.
The President of the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of the Brazilian Parliament), Rodrigo Maya, accused supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro of using methods of terror and called for an investigation into the relevant episodes. Thus, the politician responded to the aggression of pro-presidential protesters who attacked the press during Sunday rallies in support of the President.
“Yesterday they threatened the nurses, today they attacked the journalists. Tomorrow [the targets of the attacks will be] anyone who does not accept their view of the world. Democratic institutions should apply legal instruments against this group, which confuses politics with methods of terror,” the MP wrote on Twitter. He also called on the justice system to “punish the criminals.”
On Sunday, supporters of Bolsonaro, despite the raging coronavirus epidemic in the country, held a mass action in the capital in support of the head of state. Participants in the rally insulted the photo correspondents of the Estado de São Paulo newspaper who had covered the event in front of the presidential palace and were eventually pushed out of the venue by physical force.
The day before, a rally of medical workers who tried to draw the President’s attention to the Coronavirus epidemic, which claimed more than 7,000 lives in Brazil, took place here. People in white coats and medical masks with crosses in their hands lined up in the square facing the presidential palace. Soon, aggressive supporters of Bolsonaro appeared here, who insulted them and threatened to kill them. Both of these episodes were filmed and placed on social networks.
Apart from Maya, the actions of the demonstrators were also condemned by judges of the Federal Supreme (Constitutional) Court of Brazil, the leadership of the largest bar association in the republic, opposition-minded governors and former Justice Minister Sergio Moru.