Reinaldo reiterates that Moro imprisoned Lula against the law.

247 - In your column In Folha de S.Paulo, journalist Reinaldo Azevedo criticizes the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, saying that the head of the ministry "does whatever he wants with the laws and interprets them according to his own will."

"Elementary logic leads to the conclusion: Lula and others are therefore imprisoned against the law, right? Note that his proposal violates item 57 of article 5 of the Constitution, an entrenched clause: 'No one shall be considered guilty until a final and unappealable criminal conviction is issued.' However, a 6-5 majority in the Supreme Court trampled the Constitution, which stipulates that the court should be the last resort, authorizing the imprisonment, driven by the frenzied—and not 'hoarse'—voice of the streets, inflamed by the activism of the former judge and members of the Public Prosecutor's Office," states the columnist.

According to Azevedo, Moro "crushes logic with the same lack of ceremony with which he shatters grammar, including on Twitter, and moves forward, an undaunted colossus of dystopias already underway." "Consider the case of the proposed change to Article 283 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to allow imprisonment after conviction in the second instance. Now, if he wants to change the legal text to do so, then what we have does not authorize the procedure."