I don't eat that bread.

A judge at Brazil's Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has ordered Lula to stop broadcasting a campaign spot associating Jair Bolsonaro with cannibalism, three weeks before the second round of a high-tension presidential election.

In his judgment published late on Saturday, Judge Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino considered that this spot broadcast by the campaign team of ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva included an extract from a video “taken out of context” .

In this video from 2016, Bolsonaro, then a backbencher, claimed he would be able to eat human flesh, during an interview with the New York Times.

The current president described what he presented as a ritual of the Yanomami indigenous community in the state of Roraima.

“They cook it for two or three days and they eat it with bananas.

I wanted to see the Indian get cooked.

And there they say to me: "If you see it, you must eat it".

I eat it !

Bolsonaro says in this video, which has gone viral on social media.

“We are just giving information to the people”

“After all the nonsense that Brazil has already heard from Bolsonaro, here is another, even more appalling one: he reveals that he would eat human flesh.

Brazil can't stand Bolsonaro anymore,” says a voiceover in the video released by Lula's campaign team. 

“The original meaning of the message has been altered,” the TSE judge pointed out.

A leader of the Yanomami community, Junior Hekurari, has also categorically denied the existence of cannibalistic rituals in his culture.

“It is not malice on our part, we are just giving information to the people about our adversary”, retorted the ex-president on Saturday at a press conference.

The latest Datafolha poll published on Friday gives Lula the winner with 53% of the vote, against 47% for Bolsonaro.

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