Families of Nightclub Kiss victims plan to sue Netflix over series about tragedy

On Wednesday (25th), Netflix released the series Every day the same night, which tells the sad story of the Kiss nightclub fire, one of the greatest tragedies ever seen in Brazil. The plot is an adaptation of the homonymous book-report by Daniela Arbex.

The production quickly became one of the hottest topics on the entire Brazilian Internet and reached #1 in the Top 10 on Netflix. This Friday (27), the case turned 10 years old, with the sense of impunity still haunting the lives of the families of the victims.

It turns out that a group formed by the parents of the victims and also residents of Santa Maria, the city in Rio Grande do Sul where the tragedy occurred, rebelled against the miniseries exhibition.

“We were taken by surprise, nobody warned us, nobody asked us for permission. We want to know who benefits. We do not accept anyone making money other than our pain and the death of our children. We want to understand who authorized it, who was warned, because many of us weren’t,” said entrepreneur Eriton Luiz Tonetto Lopes who lost a 19-year-old daughter, the young Évelin Costa Lopes, in the tragedy.

“There are parents who suffer because of the series. The least we ask now is that a portion of the proceeds be donated to care for survivors and build the kiss memorial. We don’t want money for ourselves.”

The parent group is not part of the Association of Families of Victims and Survivors of the Tragédia de Santa Maria, but they have contacted the lawyer Juliane Muller Korb to obtain legal support and question the destination of the money raised by Netflix with the series.

“All families feel the same pain, but in a different way, also in relation to this series. They are all bitter about the judiciary and impunity until now. The big question is that Netflix lacked sensitivity in reaching out to parents. Not to ask permission or curb poetic license, as the story has no owner, but to let them know it would be something totally different from anything they’ve seen before,” Korb said.

“They were prepared for a documentary, not a drama series. Parents and survivors are ‘accustomed’ to seeing journalistic material, with reproductions and reliable accounts. But the series is different. The impact was very strong because it is a simulation, a reproduction, with different faces, with actors. They are “accustomed” to the consequences of the tragedy. And the series shows the before, so it’s like it happened again. It’s a very fine line between fiction and reality.”

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