Public prosecutor Marya Olimpia Ribeiro Pacheco published posts including swastikas and messages in support of Adolf Hitler. Brazil has opened an investigation into the behaviour of a public prosecutor, who is accused of publishing Nazi propaganda on social networks. Marya Olimpia Ribeiro Pacheco published seven posts on her personal facebook account, including Nazi posters, swastikas, and messages in support of Adolf Hitler. The posts have been live for five years, but Brazil’s public prosecutor’s office is investigating now after they were publicized by local media last week. The prosecutor Ribeiro Pacheco, who coordinates legal proceedings before the country’s highest courts, is the daughter of a former police director called Hitler Mussolini Domnigues Pacheco. The posts were first revealed by news outlet Congresso em Foco on September 22, which reported that Ribeiro Pacheco had used her personal facebook profile to publish a series of Nazi-related advertisements in 2016. Since then, the self-declared member of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s “digital militia” has used her social networks as a space for wide dissemination of material related to far-right agendas, it reported. Almost immediately after the accusations were published, Ribeiro Pacheco’s facebook account was restricted to the public but screenshots seen by VICE World News and published on local media show posts featuring exaltations to the Führer and a message that reads, “Kampf für führer und volk” (fight for the leader and for the people). Another calls on workers to be soldiers of Hitler, whose leadership resulted in the genocide of six million Jews in the Holocaust and millions of others, including Soviet prisoners of war, gay men, and Roma.
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