A congressman from Bolsonaro’s party talks of «burning alive» students protesting cutbacks

The deputy of the Liberal Party (PL), the formation for which Jair Bolsonaro has run for reelection, Bibo Nunes, has stated that the students of the Federal University of Santa Maria who have protested against cuts in higher education should be "burned alive".


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"In the movie 'Tropa de Elite,' you know what happens there? Look at the movie. They caught these rich people helping the poor, it went bad, and they burned them inside tires. That's what these alienated students daddy's boys deserve," the PL deputy blurted out in video response to the students' protests.

Not content with that, Nunes has gone a little further and accused those who demonstrated days ago on the campus of this university over the cuts of using "daddy's money" to "buy marijuana and cocaine" from those who traffic "to give weapons to criminals".

"Those are students of the Federal University of Santa Maria who went to protest with cheers to Lula are a disgrace, a scum, they should live in the garbage, in the sewers, they are poor and miserable", has been dispatched.

"They produce nothing, they are parasites who want to hide their incompetence through the 'L' of Lula thief", concluded Nunes, who despite all this string of barbarities and disqualifications, has assured that he is not offended the honor and dignity of anyone, according to the newspaper 'O Globo'.

A clarification that does not seem to be shared by the rector of the center, Paulo Burmann, who took to social networks to defend the students and censure the "unjust and cowardly attack" of which these people were the target, as well as the institution, located in the northern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

"He offended and disqualified the students and their families, who were peacefully demonstrating against the cuts being made in education, health and science to feed the secret budget," he has remarked, mentioning a controversial congressional measure criticized for its lack of transparency.

This secret budget, Burmann stressed, "makes it impossible for them to continue with their studies and for science to advance". It is, he said, "an arrogant attack, full of hatred" that "attacks the institution, its workers, managers and students without any knowledge of the cause".