MS deputy criticizes Hitler, has distorted speech and becomes the target of attacks

State deputy João Henrique Catan (PL) is being targeted by attacks on social networks after the release of a video in which the parliamentarian’s words are distorted. The images present parts of a speech, given last Tuesday (7), in the plenary of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul, when Catan criticized Nazism and showed an edition of the book Minha Luta, by the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. The chronological sequence of the images and audios, however, distorts the speech to make it seem that the parliamentarian is praising the extremist movement.

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At the beginning of his demonstration, the parliamentarian criticized the difficulty in obtaining information from the Executive Branch of the State, governed by Eduardo Riedel (PSDB). He is reported to have requested a list of persons appointed to the commissioned positions, with their respective salaries and functions, for the sake of transparency. At that point, he compared the lack of information to the behavior of Hitler, who denied data to the German Parliament.

Then, the parliamentarian recalled the case of a judge who, in 2016, prohibited the sale of the book “Minha Luta”. For Catan, preventing access to the work would be a form of censorship that would prevent knowledge and the fight against Nazi tactics. “I was afraid to bring this book into Brazil because at the time, a judge, perhaps more dictator than Adolf Hitler, suspended the entry and sales of Mein Kampf, Minha Luta, Minha História, Minha Vida, by Adolf Hitler, where here he portrays his strategies to annihilate, shoot the Parliament and the rights of popular representation”, he said.

The deputy also said that “it is with the presentation of Mein Kampf, by Hitler, that I ask for this Parliament to strengthen, rebuild and reorganize itself in the direction of what the European Parliament of Germany was, and which served, after its reconstruction, of inspiration, including for us to be here today, through our Brazilian constitutional law, which is inspired by the Germanic Roman model”.

A video with only the speech quoting the book circulates on social networks, as if the parliamentarian exalted Nazism. On his social network, the deputy published his complete speech. He also showed that the speech was against Nazism, the annihilation of parliament by Hitler, the revocation of political rights and against the strategies used by the dictator to weaken parliament.