Brazil: Former President Lula da Silva was released to attend the funeral of his grandson Arthur – 02/03/2019

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva he left this Saturday for the first time from the prison in which he is imprisoned for corruption Since April 2018: the judge has allowed him to attend the funeral of his grandson Arthur, who died this Friday at the age of 7 years following the consequences of meningitis.

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Lula, 73, took a helicopter from the premises of the Curitiba Federal Police, where he was serving his sentence, to be transferred to Bacacheri Airport and from there to San Pablo in a government aircraft from State of Paraná.

With a dark suit, no tie and totally white hair, the former head of state was mobilized in the middle of an intense safety device and was escorted closely by 3 federal police officers.

"Lula is very sad.He says that it should be forbidden for a father to bury his son and a grandfather to bury his grandson."

Gleisi Hoffmann

President of the Workers Party (PT)

The burial of the boy, who was one of Lula's six grandchildren, was reported to have taken place in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in the metropolitan area of ​​São Paulo. C & # 39; the same cemetery where Marisa Leticia Rocco was buried, the wife of the former president died in February 2017

The process by which release from prison was allowed is stealth protected and even their lawyers are committed to not divulging any details to prevent fans from promoting any event that jeopardizes the safety of the operation.

Judge Carolina Lebbos, of the Criminal Executions Chamber of Curitiba, accepted the release request to release him provisionally on the basis of the Law on the Execution of Sentences, which allows convicts to leave prison for to make close to their loved ones.

Arthur Araujo Lula da Silva died Friday in a hospital in San Pablo, where he was admitted shortly before the meningitis victim.

His death came a month after the death of the elder brother of the former president of a rare type of cancer that affected his blood vessels.

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In this case, the court allowed him to go to a family reunion only when the body of Genival Inácio da Silva, known as Vavá, had already been buried. Lula refused the permit and stayed in her cell.

The petition was refused because the federal police had raised logistical problems for its transfer and to guarantee security in full burial. In December, they did not give him the courage to go to the funeral of his friend Luis Carlos Seixas.

In the past 2 years, Lula has suffered 4 painful losses: his wife, older brother, a great friend and now a grandson.

Lula was found in jail in April 2018 after being sentenced to 12 years in the second instance for pbadive bribery and money laundering in a case related to the giant scandal scandal of the national oil company Petrobras .

Last month, he was sentenced for the second time, also for corruption: he was sentenced to 12 years and 11 months imprisonment for benefiting from the millionaire reforms that three construction companies had made in a country house which had been left to his family.

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Lula has 8 cases in court, including the 2 for which he was sentenced. All are related to corruption.

sources: EFE and AFP. AEZ