BRASÍLIA—Brazilian authorities on Monday detained more than 1,000 supporters of former President
Jair Bolsonaro
and removed Brasília’s federal district governor, an ally, from his post after protesters stormed the presidential palace a day earlier in what officials said was an attempt to overthrow the country’s newly elected president.
Protesters supporting the army-captain-turned-politician forced their way into the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court in the capital on Sunday, many calling for military intervention to oust
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,
a standard-bearer of the Latin American left who took office a week ago.
Some 1,200 people were detained at a camp of Bolsonaro supporters outside the capital’s army headquarters on Monday, in addition to 300 people on Sunday, police said.
As security forces worked to restore order in the capital, Mr. Bolsonaro was admitted to hospital on Monday in Florida, where he has been staying since the end of December. He was under observation after complaining of stomach pains related to injuries he suffered during a near-fatal stabbing while on the campaign trail in 2018, his wife,
Michelle Bolsonaro,
posted on Instagram.
Sunday’s attack was one of the biggest on government buildings since the fall of the country’s military dictatorship in 1985 under which Mr. Bolsonaro served. It comes after the closest presidential election in Brazil’s history, which was marred by politically-motivated acts of violence on the left and the right.
Riot police had forced protesters back into the streets by nightfall Sunday but tensions remained high in Brasília on Monday, with some supporters of the president saying they expected more protesters to arrive in the capital from other parts of the country. Small groups of supporters of Mr. Bolsonaro temporarily blocked highways in São Paulo…
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