Lula spoke after reducing her sentence: "It must be zero, but I was not entitled to a fair trial"

BRAZIL.- Yesterday, the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil (STJ)
decided to reduce the sentence to the former president

Lula da Silva

He was originally 12 years and a month in jail and will now be eight years, ten months and 20 days. However, the leader of the Left Workers Party (PT) said that he had nothing to celebrate after a failure. "The problem is not to reduce the sentence, it must be nil," he said, criticizing the fact that he "was not entitled to a fair trial".

"The struggle must continue, in the same way that I was judged politically, I will be released politically by the resistance of the people," said the former leader when he received in his cell his colleague Emídio de Souza.

Lula is in prison

of the federal police in Curitiba, serving a sentence in the Lava Jato case

Unanimously, the four members of the Fifth Chamber of the District Court decided that it would be appropriate to apply a sentence of eight years and ten months, four years and three months less than the judgment of the second instance had imposed. At the same time, the Superior Court of Justice rejected the defense's reasons and found Lula guilty of bribery and money laundering.

After hearing the news, defense attorney Cristiano Zanin also disagreed with the judges. "We respect the position presented by the ministers of the Superior Court of Justice, but we disagree to understand that the only possible decision is the acquittal of the former President Lula because it is n & # 39; He committed no crime, "he said.

ANSA Agency