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The former president Lula da Silva must remain imprisoned, serving his 12-year sentence and one month's imprisonment for corruption, following a confusion judicial with a series of orders and counter-orders for his release that plunged Brazil this Sunday in a real confusion.

The whereabouts that ended the president of a court of appeal began in the morning when a service judge of that court surprised all by ordering the release of the leader of the left and favorite for the presidential elections in October, three months after his arrest at the headquarters of the federal police in Curitiba (south).

Judge Rogério Favreto – of the TRF4 court in Porto Alegre (south) who ratified and extended in January the trial judge's sentence Sergio Moro ordered his release after accepting a petition. habeas corpus presented on Friday Workers' Party (PT)

This appeal had already been rejected by the Federal Supreme Court (19459007) and the news broke out as a bomb [19659003] And while the Brazilian press recalled that the magistrate was affiliated with the PT from 1991 to 2010, soon after, the exmandatario supporters had almost time to shout "Lula Libre!", The judge relator of the case Lava Jato in this court, João Pedro Gebran Neto, ordered to cancel the measure to release the former president.

Neto Gebran badured that the judge on duty was to respect the collegiate decision of the court, after Sergio Moro, officially on vacation, issued a note stating that Favreto did not have jurisdiction to order this release and formally asked the president of the court However, to continue to close the loop, Judge Favreto returned to the charge and shortly after 4:00 pm, the local issued a new order in which he requested the release of Lula in the court. hour.

In the midst of this war of judges, STF President Carmen Lúcia issued a statement in which she emphasized that justice was "impersonal".

"The competent judicial organs of each region must act so that the answer The judicial is offered quickly and without breaking the hierarchy, with absolute rigor to comply with the regulations in force," he said in a statement. brief note.

Finally, the president of TRF4, Carlos Eduardo Thompson Flores put an end to the controversy by determining the return of the files to the office of Judge Gebran Neto, "as well as the maintenance of the decision taken by him" that Lulasiga in jail

confusion, jokes did not wait.

"After being released, jailed, released and jailed again in three hours, the federal police set up a revolving door in the Lula cell, "quipped the humorous Sensationalist portal

" Free Lula ya! "

" Free Lula Now! "was read all day long on the Twitter account of the former president .

More than a thousand people gathered at federal police gates in Curitiba where Lula is in prison, asking for his departure.

There was also a demonstration in his stronghold in the Sao Paulo working-clbad belt.