Jan 9, 2023 8:44 p.m
(updated at 21:23)
Photo: Reproduction/Twitter/Popoca Moderna
Actress Cássia Kis, an outspoken Bolsonarian, echoed the counternarrative of the terrorists in Brasília, blaming leftist “invaders” for the trail of destruction left in Praça dos Três Poderes last Sunday (8/1).
According to the actress, even notorious supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, who called for riots on social networks, were “smuggled” into the coup movements who were trying to attract “patriots” with the sole aim of blaming them for the vandalism.
The “thesis” was defended by the actress through eight videos that she sent to the F5 section of Folha de S. Paulo.
In one of them, Bolsonarian Ana Priscila Azevedo in charge of a support group for the former president with more than 55,000 members on Telegram seen at the riots is identified as a leftist. “An intruder who committed vandalism and blamed the patriots who were peacefully demonstrating,” reads the caption of one of the publications shared by Cassia.
Interestingly, Ana Priscila’s last post before deleting her social media this Monday (01/01) also accused “trespassers” of Sunday’s dirt.
According to the newspaper report, Cássia is said to have shared pictures of a man wearing a Tshirt inside the National Congress, whom he christened Hugo, an alleged member of the infiltrated MST. The statement sounded arbitrary because it was not accompanied by any evidence.
This counternarrative was identified by the American newspaper Washington Post in a report published this Monday as a plagiarism of Trumpists’ defense against the January 6, 2021 uprising in the United States, “when many Trump supporters blamed leftwing activists for the violence” during the invasion of the Capitol, the US Congress.
When asked what she really thought of the deeds and whether she wanted to give an interview, she only said that “the truth is only one”.
Cassia Kis has participated in antidemocratic acts at least twice.
On November 6, at Praça Duque de Caxias in downtown Rio de Janeiro, she carried a picture of Nossa Senhora Aparecida and prayed at the demonstration calling for a military coup in Brazil.
On November 2, she took part in the coup demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro, when she was received as a hero for “facing the system” in Globo and once again joining the Bolsonaristas in prayer.
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