Brazil: Lula Is Free
By teleSUR
09 November 19
Lula was detained for 580 days, the result of a judicial process riddled
with irregularities.
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was released on Friday, one day
after Brazil's Supreme Court decided to end the mandatory imprisonment of
convicted criminals after they lose their first appeal.
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva thanked on Friday all the people
involved in his defense team in a speech he said in front of a crowd of
supporters outside of Curitiba jail.
"I want the Public Ministry and Judge Sergio Moro to know that they did not
imprison a man, they tried to kill an idea, but ideas don't die, they do not
disappear," he said in his first speech to supporters waiting for him to
walk free.
As he walked out of jail, Lula raised a defiant fist of victory in the air
to the cheers of a crowd of supporters and members of his Workers Party who
waved red flags and held "Free Lula" banners.
"They tried to create the image that I was a thief with Globo TV, but they
don't represent 10 percent of the people I represent," he added.
Lula vowed to fight to establish his innocence and excoriated what he called
the "rotten side of the judicial system" for "working to criminalize the
left."
He announced that his next step will be going to Sao Paolo to the union for
metal workers first, and then will start touring the country in order to
renew the electoral campaign he was forced to interrupt.
After thanking many comrades from the Workers Party, which he leads, as well
as the PSOL and PSDB, the opposition leader also introduced his daughter and
his grandson, and his "future partner of life."
He also thanked his mother, recalling that she was "illiterate" when he grew
up.
"My heart does not have any hatred inside, I am living the prison filled
with love," he concluded.
Curitiba Judge Danilo Perreira Jr. ordered his release after Lula's defense
lawyer Cristiano Zanin met with him this Friday afternoon and submitted a
request for immediate release.
"Lula has not committed any crime and is a victim of the law, which, in the
case of the former president, is the strategic use of the law for the
purpose of political persecution," emphasized his lawyers.
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