The Dhaka Times Desk Brazilian city São Paulo In view of the upcoming FIFA Football World Cup 2014, many common people are participating in protests. Police have arrested around 100 people from the latest protest.
Brazilian authorities have arrested several protesters in the streets of Sao Paulo. They are accused of breaking the law and destroying public property by setting fires on the streets of Sao Paulo.
Protesters in Brazil are demanding that unnecessary world sports events are not held in the country at the expense of the country's money. They are demanding that the World Cup be held in Sao Paulo to cut extra costs for the city's 460th anniversary celebrations.
The streets of Sao Paulo saw scores of protesters marching and chanting “No World Cup here. Go back to FIFA and move the World Cup away from Brazil."
Protesters say they want to stop spending millions of dollars. Let this money of Brazil be spent on social work. Also, there is corruption in the country in various ways, these corruptions should also be stopped.
Saturday's peaceful protest suddenly turned violent, forcing the police to open fire to control the situation. Some protesters tried to set police cars on fire. They also torched ordinary vehicles and vandalized shops.
As the protests spread everywhere, the police were forced to arrest the protesters. Police arrested 15 protesters from near the World Cup stadium in Natal!
Protests have been going on in Brazil for the past several days demanding the cancellation of the World Cup. But as the World Cup approaches, the protests are getting stronger. FIFA has yet to comment on the protests.
Source: BBC
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