Bolsonarista deputy says that the young people who support Lula deserve "to be burned"

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The Brazilian Public Ministry announced this Friday that it will investigate a Bolsonaro deputy who stated that university students who support the candidacy of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva deserve "to be burned."

According to prosecutors from the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the declaration of deputy Bibo Nunes, from that region, is "very serious" and may constitute various crimes, including

Nunes is a federal deputy, aligned in the ranks of President Jair Bolsonaro, leader of the extreme right that will be measured on the 30th in the second round of the elections against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, champion of a progressive front.

In a video released on the internet, Nunes condemned an act of support for Lula carried out this week by students from the Federal University of the city of Santa Maria, in

.

The parliamentarian made a parallel with a scene from the movie

, in which drug traffickers burn alive a middle-class youth who cooperated with the poorest population of the favela in which they operated.

"They caught those rich people helping the poor and it turned out badly, they burned them alive," and "this is what these students, sons of parents with money, deserve now," because "they are risking ending our Brazil, which

Nunes said in the video that will be the subject of an investigation.

Nunes's statement was received with widespread rejection, especially in Santa María, where, in 2013, a fire in the Kiss nightclub caused the death of 242 people, an event whose responsibility has not yet been established by the Justice and that almost ten years later remains unpunished.

Among the victims, 134 were university students where, this week, the act in favor of Lula, condemned by the deputy in the video, took place.

One of the entities that expressed its

was precisely the

(AVTSM), formed by relatives of the young people who died in the Kiss disco.

"The youth of Santa Maria are marked by the scars of the tragedy and are still trying to deal with the traumatic consequences of that fire," the association said in a note.

"The offenses against life made by the deputy are barbaric that wounds all the humanity of a nation. We will never accept the naturalization of this insanity and this violence, nor such a lack of humanity," said the AVTSM

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