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The Federal Supreme Court ordered in urgent session, by ten votes to one, that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva be detained in the Federal Police Directorate of Curtiba repealing the measure published a few hours ago by a judge of first instance that determined his transfer. in a San Pablo prison. This broad outcome prevented Jair Bolsonaro and his Justice and Security Minister, Sergio Moro, former judge of Lava Jato, from rejoicing at seeing the biggest enemy of the one and the other entering in a prison of common criminals, where his life would be in danger Christian defender Zanin Martins.

Omitted prior to the conviction and the ban of Lula (as well as against the coup that overthrew Dilma Rousseff), this time, the Court did not consent to an outrage that seemed exaggerated even for right-wing politicians like the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia. Democrats

The Workers' Party (PT) immediately rejected the transfer to a São Paulo prison housing a man who killed his five-year-old daughter, a seminarian who murdered his parents and a doctor convicted of stupid dozens of patients. . "It is very strange that the inhabitants of the" Republic of Curitiba "have decided to pbad to President Lula, you must be on the alert," said Maria de Rosario, deputy animal minister .

Gleisi Hoffmann, president of the PT, was surprised by the speed with which the authorities of Tremembe II prison, inside São Paulo, announced that a cell was ready for Lula and allowed him to to transcend the fact that he would be forced to share the dining room and the patio. with dangerous inmates. On social networks, profiles related to the Bolsonarist patrol are celebrated with comments ranging from McCarthyism to sadism.

Judge Carolina Lebbos, considered an unconditional moro, signed the transfer of Lula – then left without effect – giving rise to a request from the federal police, annoying in front of the concentrations taking place before the Superintendency of Curitiba.

Under the leadership of Moro, the "Lava Jato Working Group", made up of judges, prosecutors and police, is carrying out political orders, the Intercept website that has agreed to converse with Telegram has revealed.

The vigil "Lula Book", despite the bad news of the day, has gathered every morning as every day in front of the detention center where Lula recently visited Argentine presidential candidate Alberto Fernández. for the Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; The American intellectual Noam Chomsky ("is the world's leading political prisoner", he said), and former Italian Prime Minister Mbadimo D Alema.

In one year and four months of imprisonment of the petitioner, more international personalities went through Curitiba than in Brasilia. Messages of solidarity are added to these visits, such as those sent by Pope Francis and the engraved greetings of the British leader of the Labor Party Jeremy Corbyn.

"Moro is acting through the federal police to hurt Lula," tweeted Hoffmann, who has been arguing in recent weeks with the head of Lava Jato. According to Hoffmann, Moro's credibility was "seriously" affected by the news of The Intercept, revealing the skewed maneuvers to obtain a conviction without evidence and based on the detention of repentants who expressed themselves under duress.

The data obtained by this publication were joined by Lula's defense to the appeal to the Court with a view to canceling the proceedings because of Moro's bias. The debate on this habeas corpus has been suspended by the judicial fair. Wednesday's decision against the arrogance of Lava Jato sets a precedent that may play in favor of Chief Petista.

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The publicity stunt launched by members of Lava Jato, who spotted the news of Lula's transfer on the front page of the news sites, arises when the Curitibano prosecutors' coordinator, Deltan Dallagnol, also reported by the Intercept, seems to have counted his days. His eventual dismissal would confirm the erosion of a judicial device that was unbeatable a year ago. And this became politically impregnable when Bolsonaro rewarded Moro from the Justice and Security portfolio.

A few months after arriving at Plbadto Palace, the retired captain said that he would do everything in his power – and this is not a trivial matter to say under an autocratic regime – so that Lula continues to be arrested even though the law says that he can already benefit with the semi-open regime.

Bolsonaro, or Johnny Bravo, as he proclaimed this week in at least two official speeches, shouting to defend the dictatorship, proposed to the police to kill all suspects by calling them "badroaches" or threatening the "journalist" Glenn Greenwald published in The Intercept consistent information about the unlawfulness of Lava Jato.

With this speech, he tries to hide the fragility of a government in the face of growing disapproval and breaks in an alliance where former right-wing partners are distancing themselves.

The Court's decision in favor of keeping Lula in Curitiba is a further negative for Bolsonaro. But the worst of all worlds for the president would be the freedom of the politician who, despite his captivity, remains the only one able to galvanize widespread discontent.