Bombshell squared after the bag is left in front of the Planalto

The bomb squad of the Special Operations Battalion (Bope), with the help of a robot and a officer in special suit, examines the suitcase with X-ray and found that there was no threat in the luggage. In order to carry out the operation, the traffic in front of the Plbadto Palace was diverted and the area near the place where the suitcase was was isolated.

"After the X-ray inspection, we eliminate any possibility of explosives.Then we were able to do a manual check and we realized that we only had clothes, not dangerous," said L & # 39; Squadron of the bomb squad, Pedro Henrique Fernandez

The operation lasted about an hour. According to police officers who worked on the operation, the owner of the suit was identified. He had requested a transport by application, got into the car and forgot his suitcase at the bus stop. The driver returned, without the customer, to pick up the forgotten object, but was stopped by the popular, who alerted the security personnel of the Palace Plbadto. She was responsible for the police call.

Fernandez orders the population not to handle an abandoned object in the street. "What makes the object suspect is not its appearance, but its strangeness at the place.In the case, an abandoned suitcase in the middle of the sidewalk near the Plbadto Palace becomes a suspicious object. never advise to move abandoned objects.It is an orientation we pbad on to the people. "

President Michel Temer is not in Brazil. He attends the 10th meeting of the BRICS, a bloc formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and returns to Brazil tomorrow (27) at night. The president of the interim Republic, Carmem Lúcia, had already left the palace of Plbadto during the dismissal of the bomb squad