The self-employed Sandro dos Santos, 46 years old, died after being filmed ingesting a bottle full of cachaça during a ‘joke’ with colleagues, in the municipality of São Miguel do Aleixo (SE). The information was confirmed by his family, this Monday (7), after circulating the video on social networks.

According to his mother, Marielza dos Santos, her son was an alcoholic and last Thursday he was encouraged to drink about 500ml of cachaça at once and he couldn’t resist.

“The pain is very great. No mother deserves to see her son in the situation I saw mine. There was no need for them to do this to him,” she lamented.