São Paulo Prosecutors Drop Civil Case Against Monark Over 2022 Nazi-Party Comments

Overview

• The São Paulo human rights prosecutor, in a Tuesday filing, asked a judge to dismiss the suit and ended the office’s bid for R$4 million in collective damages.
• The case stemmed from a 2022 Flow Podcast debate where Monark said a Nazi party should be legal and that a person had the right to be anti‑Jewish.
• The opinion frames his remarks as a mistaken, abstract defense of free expression, cites his on-air denunciations of Nazism, and finds no call to violence or hate speech.
• Monark welcomed the move as a win and thanked Free Speech Union Brasil, which supported his defense in the case.
• After the 2022 remarks he was fired from Flow and lost sponsors, and in 2023 Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered his social media profiles blocked over alleged anti‑democratic speech.