The claim
A Brazilian “shaman” who has been compared to “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley is said to have been present at the storming of the Congress in Brasilia on January 8, 2023.
Our conclusion
The comparison with its American model is apt. Both belong to the Christian right in their respective countries and defend politicians with a more than questionable understanding of democracy. However, the shared image dates back to 2021 and was taken at an appearance by then-President Jair Bolsonaro. There are no photos of Julio “Shaman” Monteiro storming Congress.
On Sunday, January 8, 2023, supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the Planalto presidential palace and the Supreme Court in the capital Brasilia. They caused considerable damage to property, including breaking windows. However, there were no representatives in Congress that day. The images and the occasion are reminiscent of a similar incident: the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. There, too, violent supporters did not want to believe that their president - at the time Donald Trump - was voted out.
One of the images burned into the collective memory of the storming of the US Capitol: the man with face paint, bare torso, fur and a horned helmet. The so-called “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley (also known as Jake Angeli) has now been sentenced to 41 months in prison . A similar “shaman” is said to have appeared during the uprisings in Brazil: again with face paint, horns and a naked torso, but this time in the colors of Brazil and with feather headdresses. The photos shared in this context are not from the storming of the congress in Brasilia, but from 2021.
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First picture of the “Shaman” on National Day 2021
The widely shared image Avenida Paulista on September 7, 2021, Brazil's Independence and National Day . Then-President Jair Bolsonaro appeared in São Paulo that day and was applauded by more than 100,000 supporters. to dish it out properly against the Supreme Court and to build the mood for the upcoming election in 2022.

Bolsonaro had already called on his supporters to protest against his enemies in Congress and the ongoing court proceedings. He criticized the electronic voting system in the presidential election, which still serves as an argument for his supporters who accuse Lula of election manipulation.
Who is the Brazilian “shaman”?
The “shaman” in the pictures is called Julio Monteiro; at the time he was a local politician from the “Partido Trabalhista Cristão” (Christian Workers’ Party). This group is described as liberal-conservative and Christian-right and has since renamed itself Agir (Action). Monteira hit the headlines when he was photographed with a fake street sign including a commemorative text that describes MP Daniel Silveira as a “martyr, defender of freedom, life and individual rights, unjustly imprisoned for crimes of opinion”.

He was arrested while defending AI-5, a notorious law from the military dictatorship. The Supreme Court sentenced Silveira to eight years in prison for constant attacks on democratic institutions in Brazil. pardoned again shortly afterwards by President Bolsonaro . In September 2021, Julio Monteiro appeared again as a “shaman”, this time again with the street sign and another with the revolutionary saying : “Resistance to tyrants is obedience to god”.
And in 2022, Julio Monteiro slipped into his costume again several times, like here for his Twitter and YouTube channel. No footage from January 8, 2023 of Monteiro in a shaman costume has emerged yet. Maybe he wasn't there at the riots at the congress in Brasilia, or maybe he was in civilian clothes and went unrecognized.
Conclusion: The comparison of the Brazilian “shaman” with his American role model is apt. Both belong to the Christian right in their respective countries and defend politicians with a more than questionable understanding of democracy. Julio Monteiro has appeared as the “Shaman” several times since September 2021. However, the well-known photo with the megaphone does not come from the storming of the Congress in Brasilia in January 2023. So far, no photos have emerged showing him there.

the secular media site OnlySky has published a satirical text that makes fun of the copycat: The “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley is said to be suing his Brazilian colleague for “cultural appropriation and copyright infringement”.
Sources: CNN , BBC , Reuters , Der Standard , UOL , defacto-observatoire.fr , infobae.com , jurist.org , OnlySky
Further fact check: The video of an alleged Muslim clergyman is old recordings of a well-known right-wing extremist.
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