Bolsonaro wants the Supreme Court to remove PT (Workers' Party) propaganda that associates him with cannibalism.
The campaign coordination team claims that the video, where Bolsonaro says he would eat the flesh of an indigenous person, is out of context.
247 - Jair Bolsonaro's (PL) campaign will appeal to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to request that the electoral advertisement, broadcast this Friday (7), be taken off the air, in which the President says he would eat human flesh.. The information is newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.
In a video that went viral online, an interview Bolsonaro gave to the New York Times in 2016, he says he was in an indigenous tribe and didn't eat human flesh because he lacked company. These absurd statements caused outrage on social media.
One of the campaign coordinators, the Minister of Communications, Fábio Faria, claims that the video excerpt takes the statement out of context and, for this reason, it is fake news. "The president says that in the jungle you go through hard times, there are people who end up, by the law of survival, eating human flesh, indigenous flesh, animal flesh, anything. Then they cut out only that part and included it."
"I wanted to see the Indian being cooked. Then the guy said: if that's how it is, you have to eat it. I'll eat it," says Bolsonaro, in the excerpt highlighted in the PT's advertisement.
In the video, Bolsonaro recounted his experience in an indigenous community in Sururucu, located in Vista Alegre (RO).
>>> Yanomami people refute yet another lie by Bolsonaro: we don't practice cannibalism here.
Yanomami leader Junior Hekurari, president of Condisi (Council of the Yanomami Indigenous Health District), said he was outraged when he watched the recording.
“We, the Yanomami of Surucucu, are not cannibals, we have never been like that. There is no record [of that]. Neither ancestral nor current records. This president has no respect for human beings. He makes things up,” said Hekurari.
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