A Brazilian podcaster, who said on air that the South American country should have its own Nazi party, has triggered outrage.
Prosecutors say he could face charges for his comments that have triggered a massive backlash and warranted a probe.
"I think there should be a Nazi party recognised by law," Bruno Aiub said in an interview with lawmakers for his Flow Podcast show, one of the most listened to in Brazil, with 3.6 million subscribers on YouTube and one million on Twitch.
He said during the programme that "the radical left has much more space than the radical right, both should have space", and called for the creation of a Nazi party.
"If someone wants to be anti-Jewish, I think they have the right to be," added the presenter, who later apologised and claimed he was "totally drunk" when he made the comments.
The video of the show was taken down from social media and the production house, Estudio Flow, said in a statement on Tuesday it had fired the host.
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Outrage and condemnation
Many Jewish associations, institutions and political figures condemned the statements.
"Hate speech and the defence of hate speech have terrible consequences for humanity, and Nazism is the greatest historical proof of this," said the Brazil Israelite Confederation.
"No, defending Nazism is not freedom of expression," the German Embassy in Brazil said on Twitter.
To defend Nazism "is to disrespect the memory of the victims and survivors of this regime and to ignore the horrors it caused", it added.
The public prosecutor's office announced in a press release that it was going to analyse "the content of the statements" as part of an investigation for "the alleged offence of apologising for Nazism".
A centrist lawmaker, Kim Kataguiri of the Podemos party, who was taking part in the broadcast, was also a target of the prosecution's investigation for having "claimed that Germany had made a mistake by criminalising the Nazi party", according to the press release.
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