Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva turned himself in to police on Saturday, ending a day-long stage- off to begin serving a 12- time captivity judgment for corruption that derails his shot to return to power.Lula was flown by police to the southern megacity of Curitiba, where he was tried and condemned late last time, and taken to the civil police headquarters there to serve his judgment .
Protesters supporting Lula disaccorded with police outside the walls of the structure. Officers used stun grenades, tear gas and rubber pellets to disperse the crowd.n a fiery speech hours before to a crowd of sympathizers of his Workers ’ Party outside the union structure in São Paulo, Lula claimed on his innocence and called his bribery conviction a political crime, but said he’d turn himself in.
I’ll misbehave with the order, ” he told the réclame crowd. “ I ’m not above thelaw.However, I would n’t have started a political party, If I did n’t believe in the law. I would have started a revolution. ”Lula, who faces six further trials on corruption charges, eventually ended the stage- off when he moved out in a convoy of black police SUVs after pushing his way out of the sword workers union headquarters where he’d taken retreat.
Lula’s imprisonment removes the frontrunner from this time’s presidential crusade, according to judges.He was condemned of taking backhanders
including a three- story riverside apartment that he denies ever retaining, from an engineering establishment in return for help landing public contracts.
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Saturday rejected the rearmost plea by Lula’s legal platoon, which argued they hadn’t exhausted procedural prayers when a judge issued the order to turn himself in.
Under Brazilian electoral law, a seeker is interdicted from running for office for eight times after being set up shamefaced of a crime. Rare exceptions have been made in the history, and the final decision would be made by the top electoral court if and when Lula officially files to be a seeker.
