While his dead brother was already buried, Lula da Silva stopped using the last authorization he had to get out of jail.

Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was allowed Wednesday to bid farewell to his brother Genival Inácio da Silva, "Vavá", who died the day before, but He dropped out of prison because he received permission at the time of the funeral.

"They did not let me say goodbye to Vavá by pure evil"said Lula, who has been serving a sentence of 12 years and a month in Curitiba since April 2018, 400 km from the city of Sao Paulo where the funeral took place. "I can not do anything because they did not let me go, what I can do is stay here and cry."Lula added, according to a statement from the Workers Party (PT, left).

The President of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Dias Toffoli, granted a writ of habeas corpus to Lula to guarantee him the "right to be exclusively with his family (…) in a military unit of the region, including with the possibility that the body (of his brother) be brought into the aforementioned unit, at the discretion of the family. "

A spokesman for the Lula Institute told the AFP that "the judicial decision was taken at the time of the burial of the body" at the pauliceia cemetery of Sao Bernardo do Campo, 20 km from Sao Paulo.

The musician and writer Chico Buarque considered that the judicial treatment of the case was marked by a "cynicism". "My solidarity with Lula for the loss of Vavá and my rejection of justice for cynicism and cowardice," said the artist on the 247 portal of Brazil.

Lula's lawyers had asked that the former president (2003-2010) be authorized to attend the funeral and burial of Vavá. They invoked Article 120 of the Law on Criminal Prosecutions, which provides that detainees can obtain the exit permit with escort in the event of death or serious illness of a brother or close relatives.

Tuesday night, Judge Carolina Lebbos – in charge of the Lava Jato anti-corruption mega-operation He rejected the request and accepted the recommendations of the Federal Police (PF) and the Prosecutor's Office.

The recommended PF does not authorize the claim alleging logistical problems, in particular the fact of not having the necessary means of transport so that the former president can participate in time "in the post-mortem rites of his brother"and security, in front of the high power of mobilization of the former president.

Lula, 73, He was convicted of pbadive bribery and money laundering, as a beneficiary of an apartment on the coast of Sao Paulo in exchange for the preference given to a construction company under contracts with the state-owned company Petrobras.

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