Lula is "angry but not broken down" | After knowing …

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Lula is "angry but not shot" after hearing the second conviction against her in the Lava Jato case initiated in 2014 by Sergio Moro. The founder of the Workers Party (PT) spoke yesterday morning to the Superintendency of the Federal Police of Curitiba with his lawyer, Manoel Caetano.

Under the slogan "Lula Libre", the PT has called for rallies in several Brazilian capitals to repudiate the recent, apparently hasty, 12-month-old sentence signed by Gabriela Hardt. This substitute judge of the first federal court, curitibana, was appointed to replace Moro, who became the "superministro" of Judge Jair Bolsonaro on 1 January.

In his rationale, Hardt argued that the accused was guilty of pbadive bribery and money laundering for the renovation of a weekend residence in Atibaia, inland of Sao Paulo, who was responsible for the builders of the OAS and Odebrecht. However, in the same letter, the judge admitted that she did not have evidence to prove that the fifth belonged to Lula, which explains the reasoning of the judge's sentence related to Minister of Justice Jair Bolsonaro.

In parentheses: Bolsonaro said, in one of his last campaign speeches last October, that he was elected, Lula "would rot" in prison. The new judicial decision allows to suspect that the political decision of the burning government is to carry out this campaign of threats.

Yesterday, the former mechanical turner and two-time president spent ten months at the superintendency of the federal police, where he is serving twelve years and one month of arrest. The sum of the two penalties amounts to 25 years of imprisonment for the 73-year-old leader.

The judgment on the fifth of Atibaia was made public just when the accused was "nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for more than half a million supporters," says a statement. PT.

Friends close to Chief Petista told the Folha newspaper in Sao Paulo that Judge Hardt's letter contained typing errors and inaccuracies, including the invocation of the same informant with two different names. The rush is attributed to the intention to scramble the prisoner when he is in the final stretch of the race to the Nobel Prize, postulation launched by the Argentine Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

"I do not believe in the current Brazilian government or its justice system, there is no guarantee on Lula's life, it's our fear and our concern," said the Nobel laureate from Argentina to Spanish newspaper Público this week.

It appeared that the detainee could be transferred to a common prison, which never happened to a former Brazilian president. This will not be the first abusive decision against him: last month he was forbidden to go in the wake of his brother and he was previously prevented from voting and giving interviews to the press, while this are activities permitted by law.