BRASILIA&nbsp;(Reuters) -Police in Brazil's capital,&nbsp;Brasilia, said on Tuesday that a&nbsp;backpack&nbsp;found near where President-elect Luiz Inacio&nbsp;Lula&nbsp;da Silva was staying that had prompted a&nbsp;bomb&nbsp;scare&nbsp;contained only personal belongings.
News of the&nbsp;bomb&nbsp;squad being called into action just days before&nbsp;Lula&nbsp;takes office underscores the nervy atmosphere in&nbsp;Brasilia&nbsp;after the most fraught election in a generation.
On Dec. 24,&nbsp;Brasilia&nbsp;police said they had foiled a&nbsp;bomb&nbsp;plot, arresting a man with ties to a group of pro-Bolsonaro election deniers camped outside the army headquarters, who have been urging the military to overturn&nbsp;Lula's victory.
George Washington Sousa, who confessed to making the device and plotting with other camp-dwellers to detonate it, said he had hoped that the&nbsp;bomb&nbsp;would "provoke a military intervention... to prevent the installation of communism in Brazil."
Earlier in December, a group from the encampment tried to invade the federal police headquarters after the arrest of a pro-Bolsonaro indigenous leader for alleged anti-democratic threats.
The political tensions in the capital have prompted&nbsp;Lula's team to beef up security protocols for Sunday's&nbsp;inauguration, incoming Justice Minister Flavio Dino said on Monday.
On Tuesday, Dino said the transition team will ask the Supreme Court to suspend the carrying of firearms in&nbsp;Brasilia&nbsp;for the next few days.
Since Bolsonaro began loosening gun laws in 2019, the number of registered gun-owners has surged sixfold to around 700,000 people.
"We will ask Justice Alexandre de Moraes... to suspend the carrying of firearms in the Federal District between tomorrow (Wednesday) and Jan. 2 or 3," Dino told journalists.
"The goal is that even people who have permits... have this suspension by court order, so that any carrying (of firearms) in this period will be considered a crime."
(Reporting by Ricardo Brito, Lisandra Paraguassu and Peter Frontini; Editing by Alistair Bell and Rosalba O'Brien)

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