Lula Da Silva reacted to the reduction of her sentence: "The punishment must be zero"

"The problem is not to reduce the penalty, the penalty must be zero (…) Up to now, I did not have the right to a fair trial, "he said. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva knowing the decision of the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice. The judges approved Tuesday the reduction of 4 years and 3 months of the sentence of the former presidentBut rectified the decisions of the first and second instance that accused him of corruption and lAvado of money as part of the mega cause Lava Jato.

"The fight must continue, in the same way that I was judged politically, I will be released", said the leader of the Workers' Party, imprisoned since April 2018, when he received his co-religious in his cell Emídio de Souza.

Lula's lawyer, Cristiano ZaninHe also disagreed with the Magistrates of the Superior Court. "We respect the position presented today by the ministers of the Superior Court of Justice, but we disagree to understand that the only possible decision is the acquittal of former President Lula because 39, he has not committed any crime, "said the lawyer, according to the ANSA news agency.

"It is the first time that a court recognizes that the sentences applied by former Judge Moro and the Regional Court 4 they were abusiveBut this is only the beginning, we hope that the coming judicial proceedings will manifest (on the merits), "added Zanin, recalling that a complaint had been filed with the Human Rights Committee. United Nations man for alleged violation of the law.Lula's guarantees a fair process.

Lula celebrates a year of imprisonment, between personal distress and political validity

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The judges Felix Fischer, reporter of the case and his colleagues Jorge Mussi, Reinaldo Soares da Fonseca and Ribeiro they partly constituted the call of Lula Da Silva and they shortened his sentence of 12 years and 1 month. Unanimously, the judges of the Fifth Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice, court of third instance, determined that the new sentence is 8 years and 10 months.

This decision opens the possibility that the convicted person has the right to semi-open regime, with free day and return to prison at night, from September or October 2019.

The Founder Workers Party has been imprisoned since 7 April 2018 in the Superintendency of the Federal Police in Curitiba, in the south of the country, for receiving a bribe from the company, an apartment located in the state of São Paulo.

It is expected that this sentence of almost thirteen years will be badyzed by the TRF 4 of Porto Alegre in the months to come.

In addition to the conviction of the property in Guarujá against Lula, there is another sentence of first instance, which has not yet reached the second, for having received, as part of a bribe, the cost of reforms of a weekend villa in Atibaia inside San Pablo.

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