When speaking about () last Wednesday (13), the director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, drew attention to the permanence of extremist groups in the country and said that they demand “energetic action”. The speech was echoed by President Lula at a G20 Social event. “[O G20] needs to preserve public space, so that extremism does not generate setbacks or threaten rights.”
One of the PF’s lines is to investigate whether the perpetrator of the attack acted alone. Locksmith Francisco Wanderley Luiz made posts mentioning bombs and threats to institutions. According to family members, he underwent radicalization and was in the camps at the Army HQ from where the groups responsible for the attacks on January 8 left.
The initial investigation and the first statements by the case’s rapporteur at the Federal Supreme Court, , suggest the connection between last week’s explosions and the 2023 coup attack; Bolsonarism adopted — and has instrumentalized — the thesis that Francisco acted alone, as a “lone wolf”.
This Monday’s Breakfast (18) discusses the permanence of extremism in Brazil. Historian Odilon Caldeira Neto, professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and coordinator of the Observatory of the Far Right, tells what constitutes and where the discourse of radical groups circulates, analyzes the bottlenecks of institutions in dealing with radicalization and discusses the ways to overcome the risks associated with it.
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Café da Manhã is published from Monday to Friday, always at the beginning of the day. The episode is presented by journalist Gustavo Simon, produced by Lucas Monteiro and Paola Ferreira Rosa. Sound editing is by Raphael Concli.
