Minutes after the funeral, the Brazilian Supreme Court allowed Lula to leave the prison to fire his brother.

A judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil has allowed the former president Wednesday Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a temporarily leave the prison meet his family and watch over his older brother, who died the day before, but habeas corpus was granted minutes before he was buried in the cemetery.

Lula's defense had demanded the release of the former president Tuesday afternoon, but a trial judge and a second instance court they refused the request after the federal police had discussed logistical problems for his transfer and to guarantee security during the burial in the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo.

The President of the Supreme Court, the judge José Antonio Dias Toffoli, obtained a habeas corpus so that, according to the law, the "can be insured"Lula's right to be exclusively with her family, at the date of todayin the military unit of the region, including the possibility of the body being taken to the aforementioned military unit at the discretion of the family. "

However, the decision was taken precisely when Genival Inácio da Silva, known as Vavá, was buried in the cemetery of Sao Bernardo do Campo, where Lula lived before being arrested last April.

Lula's counsel says EFE What We do not know yet if Lula is going out of prison, but clarified that habeas corpus he came out almost at the same time as his brother was buried and that tomorrow family visits to the prison be allowed.

Vavá, who according to the Workers' Party (PT) was a "paternal figure"For Lula, he was 79 years old and was battling a strange type of cancer that was affecting his blood vessels.

The lawyers asked the day before that Lula be released from the prison to attend the wake of his brother and the funeral and stressed that, according to the law, the citizen "in a situation of imprisonment has the right to leave temporarily the establishment in which it is located. " hypothesis of the death of the brother, as it is the case ".

However, the magistrate in charge of the case, Carolina Lebbos, rejected the request, after the federal police invoked logistical reasons to prevent the transfer, a decision strongly criticized by the PT.

Lula (2003-2010) has been imprisoned since April at the headquarters of the federal police in Curitiba, after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for pbadive bribery and money laundering as part of the Lava Jato operation.

In its decision, a second instance court took for granted that Lula had received a three-story apartment on a beach in San Pablo in exchange for favors granted to the OAS construction company, which the ex -president denies with force.