Kennedy: It's clear that Lula is being treated as a political prisoner.
According to journalist Kennedy Alencar, "Lula's political greatness is undeniable"; "Critics and supporters should recognize this. The former president is not dead. The Justice system cannot want him to disappear, to vanish from Brazil. Is Lula really that dangerous to the new power holders?", he questioned.
247 "A large part of the Brazilian legal community considers Lula's sentence in the Guarujá apartment case unjust. Renowned jurists and criminal lawyers argue that, at the very least, the principle of 'in dubio pro reo' should have been applied. That is, given the doubts about conviction, Lula should have been acquitted," says journalist Kennedy Alencar on his blog. "However, when examining the execution of the former president's sentence, it becomes clear that Lula is being treated as a political prisoner."
The journalist emphasized that, "subordinate to the Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, the Federal Police responded that it could not guarantee the public safety of this transfer, nor did it have the means to do so in such a swift manner."
"With all the resources the Federal Police has, this response is worrying. How will it combat organized crime and react quickly to more serious events? In the Cesare Battisti case, a plane was quickly deployed for the failed attempt to capture him in Bolivia for extradition to Italy."
According to Alencar, "Lula's political greatness is undeniable." "Critics and supporters alike should recognize this. The former president is not dead. The Justice system cannot want him to disappear, to vanish from Brazil. Is Lula really that dangerous to the new power holders?" he questioned.
Read the full text at Kennedy Alencar's Blog