Protests Brazil controversial former president

- In several Brazilian cities have been protests erupted Wednesday after the appointment of the controversial former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the new minister in the cabinet of his successor and party colleague Dilma Rousseff. His appointment Lula avoids provisional prosecution because only the Supreme Court can prosecute ministers. The former president is suspected of money laundering.

According to police protested about 5,000 people to the presidential palace in the capital Brasilia against Lula's appointment. Riot police had to pepper spray the crowd attacked. Also in the financial center of Sao Paulo were people going. The protesters demand the resignation of Rousseff and Lula want to see arrested.