Lula mourns the death of her grandson Arthur | To negotiate …

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Death of Arthur Araújo Lula da Silva, grandson of Luiz Inácio Lula, aged 7, imprisoned in the south of Curitiba since last April. Until the end of this column, it was expected that a trial judge would allow his trip to San Pablo to participate in the wake. According to some information, the permit was almost certain, but some remembered that it was forbidden a month ago to attend the funeral of his older brother, Vavá, 79 years old. The state government of Paraná, whose capital is Curitiba, has announced the availability of a plane. The little Arthur was hospitalized yesterday at seven in the morning with a feverish image and ceased to exist five hours later because of meningococcal meningitis, said the medical party of the "I". Hospital Bartira de Santo André, in the Grand San Pablo. Arthur was the son of Marlene Araújo and Sandro Luis Lula da Silva, in charge of calling the former president to inform him of the tragedy.

Head of the Workers' Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, said the 73-year-old grandfather was "very shot" yesterday at the Superintendency. "He is very sad, he said that it would be forbidden for a father to bury his son, to a grandfather to bury his grandson, he cried several times, we have tried to comfort him several times. Hoffmann told a group of journalists gathered in front of the prison that the "logistics" aspects of the trip had not yet been resolved. The child's body will be cremated this Saturday at the Hill Cemetery, in San Bernardo do Campo, where Lula had been forged as a metalworker in the 1970s, when he was leading strikes of mbad that harbaded the dictatorship. The news was known early in the afternoon. In just a few minutes, the #FuerzaLula and #LiberenaLula hashtags have become a trend of the Twitter social network. Arthur's death was a shock. "Lula has the right to bury her grandson," asked former president Dilma Rousseff. "The president has lost his grandson, we are at your side, feel our embrace and solidarity," wrote Gleisi Hoffmann on social media. Lula is being held under the sentence of the former judge and current "deputy" of Judge Sergio Moro, who continues to exert influence over Judge Carolina Lebbos, in charge of authorizing the trip.

President Jair Bolsonaro's son spoke up about news in a spoken language. He objected to the fact that the "jet" was flown and stated that this fact would be used to be considered a "bad thing". Far-right websites came to write that the PT was preparing a plan allowing the ex-president to escape during the wake.

Meanwhile, the procedure of the defense lawyers continued to guarantee the transfer. "We will do everything" so that the former president can say goodbye to Arthur, Hoffmann promised to warn against the abnormal conditions of the "political prisoner". Last October, the authorities banned him from leaving the Superintendency to vote and journalists were not allowed to interview him, rights that help all Brazilian citizens deprived of their liberty. A few hours before Arthur's death, the authorities had announced that Lula would not have the right to receive visitors during Carnival, another measure considered exceptional.