The São Paulo Public Prosecution Service (MPSP) established on Wednesday (16), through the São José do Rio Preto Prosecutor’s Office, in the interior of São Paulo, an investigation to investigate the broadcast of a video in which a cross was being burned by military police.
In the video, Disclosure on social networks of the 9th Special Police Action Battalion (Baep), on Tuesday (15), agents burn a cross in an open place and with their arm erected at the shoulder. Internet users questioned the gesture, which can refer to a Nazi greeting.
The situation similar to the rituals of “Ku Klux Klan”, a secret organization that aimed to maintain racist practices and privileges of the American white population after the secession war, according to the folder. Watch the video:
After the repercussion, the video was erased from the Battalion social networks. However, the images were shared by countless people on social networks.
In a note sent to the report, the Military Police stated that “the material was produced during the end of a night training, conducted by the Battalion teams themselves, in order to symbolically represent the overcoming of the physical and psychological limits faced throughout the instruction.”
The corporation also said that “at no time was there an intention to associate with religious, racial or political ideologies.”
Even so, the circumstances of the production of the images are cleared by the PM. “The Military Police vehemently repudiate any allusion to Nazi symbols, as well as any manifestation of intolerance, prejudice or discrimination,” the statement says.
Sought by CNN the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) reported that it repudiates any manifestation of intolerance and that as soon as it became aware of the video established a procedure to investigate the circumstances regarding the case.
*With information from Carol Figueiredo and Juliana Bernardino
This content was originally published in Public Prosecution Service investigates video of PMs burning Cruz in the interior of SP on the website CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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