Lula left the prison to attend the funeral of her grandson

The former leader of the left (2003-2010) arrived at the cemetery of Sao Bernardo do Campo at 11 am local time, in a convoy of black cars, from where he is escorted by armed agents to attend the farewell ceremony of his grandson, who died suddenly from a meningitis at the age of 7 years.

Dressed in a dark suit and a light shirt, he greeted with a very serious gesture the activists who cheered him on the door with cries of "Lula, warrior of the Brazilian people". Nearly two hours later, he left the complex to the applause of his supporters.

Enveloping the patriarch's family on the left, several representatives of social movements and Workers Party, as a former president Dilma Rousseff o Fernando Haddad, candidate defeated in the last elections.

The promise

Many bunches of flowers filled the wake room, near the press, including a wreath sent by the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduror, reported the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

Unable to hold back his tears, the 73-year-old former union leader spoke during the ceremony that preceded the boy's cremation shortly before his departure. "Lula's words to say goodbye have fascinated us all," said Joao Pedro Stedile of the Rural Landless Workers' Movement on Brazilian news site G1.

"He said that (Arthur) was bullied at school, that his clbadmates told him that his grandfather was a thief and that was why he was a prisoner. -fils) to pledge to fight by all means for the judiciary to recognize his innocence "he told. Arthur, whose father is Sandro Luis Lula da Silva (one of Lula's five children), had visited his grandfather twice in prison.

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The broad security apparatus that covered the former president's trip to Sao Bernardo, about 425 kilometers away, consisted of several sections that started yesterday at 7:00 am, when Lula left in a helicopter the federal police building in Curitiba headed for an airport in the southern city.

From there, he traveled up to Sao Paulo in a small plane from the government of Paraná before finishing the penultimate stage up to Sao Bernardo, the cradle of his political career and his place of residence, again by helicopter. The itinerary had been kept secret by order of Justice.

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The former president was allowed out of prison under a law allowing prisoners to visit seriously ill relatives or attend their funerals. This is the second time Lula He left the building where he occupies a 15-meter cell since April 7 began serving a 12-year sentence and one month in jail for pbadive bribery and money laundering.

The first took place in November, when he was brought to testify before a court of first instance of the Curitiba, in a case for which he was sentenced last month to 12 years and 11 months of additional imprisonment.

At the end of January, Lula was unable to attend his brother's funeral. Genival Inácio da Silvaknown under the name of Vavabecause the judge granted him a permit at the last minute, while the funeral was already taking place.

"They did not let me say goodbye to Vavá by pure pain," he said on that occasion.

The deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the president of the far right Jair Bolsonaro, considered "absurd" that justice allows the leftist exit. "Lula is a common prisoner and should be in a common prison. When the parent of another prisoner dies, will he also be escorted by the PF (Federal Police) for burial? Absurd, imagine that (this) leaves the thief in evidence presenting himself as a poor ", wrote Friday on Twitter.

This message sparked a wave of criticism, even among supporters of the 34-year-old legislator, one of Bolsonaro's three politically-minded sons, who then nuanced his remarks by pointing out that the death of Bolsonaro was the only reason for his death. child was a fact. "Unhappy and unhappy".

Other political opponents of Lula have expressed their support for the place of the conservative Rodrigo Maia, president of the Chamber of Deputies, who has "Total solidarity" before the painful loss. Lula chained a series of personal tragedies and political and judicial setbacks since the death of his wife Marisa Leticia in February 2017 until the death of his grandson, by his imprisonment and the defeat of his dolphin. Fernando Haddad in the presidential elections of October against Bolsonaro.

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