Bolsonaro's reaction after Judge Moro's audi filtering in the case of Lula da Silva

In the middle of a judicial earthquake in Brazil unleashed by the audio filtering Jair Bolsonaro lent his support to the official who revealed the lack of bias of the former judge and current Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, in the trial that led President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to prison.

The president did not make a statement about the case, but he used a symbolic language: he received Moro for a private meeting in his official residence and together they went by boat Lake Paranoá, Brasilia, for a ceremony during which the minister was decorated.

The gesture comes to support his minister after the scandal resulting from information to which he had access The interception brazil, which contains messages that Moro exchanged when he was a judge with the prosecutors of the Lava Jato operation about the process in which He found Lula guilty of corruption.

The messages, transmitted by Telegram, have reached L & # 39; interception thanks to an anonymous "hacker" who spoke on Moro's phones and some prosecutors and suggested that the magistrate of the time could have guided certain actions of the investigation against Lulawhich is expressly prohibited by law.

The appearance of these messages has given wings to Lula's defense and the Workers' Party (PT), which has always denounced the fact that the former president was the victim of a "political persecution" and that the trial against him was "flawed" and should be declared null and void.

Lula's defense now relies on a remedy he lodged last year with the Supreme Court, in which he rightly requested the nullity of the process because of what he called "bias" by the prosecutors of Moro and Lava Jato.

This appeal is before the second chamber of the Supreme Court, which began its badysis late last year, but suspended the hearing when two of its five members voted against it, but they may change their minds until 'to obtain the result.

Judge Gilmar Mendes, who on this occasion asked for more time to study the case, announced Tuesday that the second chamber would take over the case. the next day 25and will do it in a "new situation".

Mendes even commented on an open debate in the legal environment on the possible use of illegally obtained evidence, as would the messages published by the portal. L & # 39; interception.

"These are not necessarily null proofs, but for example, evidence that the innocence of a person convicted of murder is obtained illegally is generally considered valid," he said.