Brazilian justice denied Lula permission to attend his brother's funeral

The Brazilian Justice ratified the decision of the Federal Police on Wednesday morning and rejected a request for defense of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to he will temporarily leave the prison to attend the funeral of his older brotherGenival Inácio da Silva, better known as "Vavá", who, as the former president, was a metalworker.

Lula's lawyers have filed a petition in a court in Curitiba, southern Brazil, for the former president I could travel to the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo, in Sao Paulo, to say goodbye to his older brother, who died on Tuesday at 79 years of age following a rare cancer. The ceremony is scheduled for 13h.

The defense invoked Article 120 of the Law on Criminal Prosecutions, which provides that detainees can obtain the exit permit with an escort in the event of death or serious illness of a brother.

The judge in charge of the case, Carolina Lebbos, however, decided that this decision should be made by the Commissioner of the Federal Police of the State of Paraná, Luciano Flores de Lima, who finally declared that he did not would not be possible "to authorize or make viable" the appearance of Lula, imprisoned since April, at the burial of his brother alleged logistical problems.

"For the moment, Helicopters not in maintenance are used to help victims of Brumadinho"The mining tragedy that killed 84 people in the south-east of the country, revealed the body of the police.

The PF also took into account, in its "risk badysis", a possible "Compromise of public order"and possible" demonstrations of supporters of the former president ".

Lebbos complied with the administrative decision of the director and finally rejected the request of the former chairman (2003-2010) to consider that, given the "concrete logistical impossibility", of " preserve public safety and the physical integrity of the prisoner "

Since last April, Lula is in Curitiba, 400 km from Sao Paulo, with a sentence of 12 years and one month in prison for pbadive bribery and money laundering. He was sentenced as a beneficiary of a department on the coast of Sao Paulo in exchange for his benefit to a construction company related to contracts with the state-owned company Petrobras.

The exmandatario, 73 years old, responds to other processes, but innocent plea in all and denounces a conspiracy to prevent it from coming back to power.

In a note, the Workers' Party criticized the judgment and said that "usurping the right of a citizen to see and bury a loved one" one of the "most cruel attitudes" possible. Lula's party recalled that "not even during the military dictatorship" (1964-1985), when he was "political prisoner", Lula "was prevented from saying everything and watched his mother, Doña Lindu".