Brazilian teacher is fired from Catholic school after she was filmed doing Hitler salute while teaching a writing class

An 11th grade teacher was fired Tuesday from a Catholic school in Brazil after she made a Nazi salute.

Josete Biral was standing behind her desk in the classroom Saturday when she extended her right arm forward, as seen in a video recorded by one of the students at the Holy Family School in the southern municipality of Ponta Grossa.

Biral was wearing a t-shirt of the Brazilian national soccer team, a flag and buttons that supported President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection.



A male student was at her desk and then walks to the back of the classroom when she makes the anti-Semitic gesture that salutes Adolf Hitler.



Biral's firing was confirmed to Brazilian news outlet G1 by the school and her attorney, Alexandre Jorge.

Jorge said the video was taken out of context and was recorded by students who shared opposing political views.

He added that Biral was playing the Brazilian national anthem when she held her arm out and that she does not condone Nazism.

'Some students who [support] the candidate [Luiz Inacio] Lula started wanting to induce this side that she was making the symbol of Nazism.'

DailyMail.com reached out to Biral for comment.

Biral had been teaching at the school for over a decade, according to Brazilian news outlet Revista Forum.



Holy Family School director Sister Edites Bet told the outlet first learned of the incident on Monday after the video had gone viral.

'It was certainly an act of imprudence on the part of the teacher and the school has already taken the first internal measures with her according to what our regiment says,' she said.

The gesture is known as the Hitler salute or Sieg Heil Salute and was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.

Use of the salute is considered a crime in Brazil and is punishable with a prison sentence.

The Ponta Grossa Civil Police had not opened an investigation as of Tuesday.

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Social media will send many people to jail.

She deserves it....

How can anyone emulate the Nazis... Especially a teacher , who's teaching little kids.

Vulcanheph:
She deserves it....

How can anyone emulate the Nazis... Especially a teacher , who's teaching little kids.

That's true.

Dreal1247:
Social media will send many people to jail.

spinna:
The real crime here is making me anticipate a cute sezy Brazil chick and meeting this...