Others said that Mr. da Silva should not have been allowed to attend. “Lula is just an inmate, and he should be at a common prison,” Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of President Jair Bolsonaro, wrote on Twitter on Friday. “When the relatives of other inmates die will they also be escorted by the federal police for the funeral? In January, Mr. da Silva was barred from attending his brother’s funeral despite Brazilian laws that grant inmates permission to leave for the funerals of close family members. His arrest has divided the country, with some believing that justice was being served to a corrupt politician and others saying that Mr. da Silva has been unfairly persecuted by Brazil’s elite and a partisan judiciary.

Source: New York Times March 03, 2019 12:31 UTC