Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ont échange ce vendredi des attaques à l’emporte-pièce, s’accusant respectively d’ivrognerie et d’être capable of cannibalism, à environ three weeks of leur duel will be a second tour of the présidentielle in Brazil.
The campaign team of former left-wing president Lula da Silva discovered and published an old video in which the current far-right president, Bolsonaro, claims that he could eat human flesh.
In this interview granted to the New York Times in 2016, Jair Bolsonaro, then a simple federal deputy, describes what he presents as a ritual of the Yanomami indigenous community, in the state of Roraima (north).
“They cook it for two or three days and eat it with plantain. I wanted to see how the Indian cooks. And then they tell me: ‘if you see it, you have to eat it’.
I eat it!” declares Jair Bolsonaro in this excerpt, which has gone viral on social networks in Brazil.
Statements “taken out of context”
“After all the nonsense that Brazil has already heard from Bolsonaro, here is another, even more terrible: he reveals that he would eat human flesh. Brazil can no longer support Bolsonaro,” says a voice off in the video broadcast by Lula. campaign team.
Jai Bolsonaro’s team replied that these statements had been “taken out of context” and announced a call to the electoral authorities. And a Yanomami community leader, Junior Hekurari, flatly denied the existence of cannibalistic rituals in his culture.
Bolsonaro calls Lula ‘drunk’
The campaign for the second round, on October 30, has intensified in recent days. The latest Datafolha poll, published this Friday, gives Lula the winner with 53% of the votes compared to 47% for Jair Bolsonaro.
The far-right president, who usually calls Lula a “thief,” called him a “drunk” this Friday during a fiery press conference at the Alvorada Palace, his official residence in Brasilia.
Lula “is going to bring in a clique of incompetents to put Brazil in order. It’s not going to work! (…) Our freedom is at stake!” she got carried away.
The former left-wing president reacted by saying that he would not respond to Bolsonaro’s “mean game.” “We are facing a man without a soul, without a heart,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
