Moro says that Lula government makes “smoke curtain” with Trump actions

Senator Sérgio Moro (União-PR) said on Sunday, 26, that criticism of the use of handcuffs in the deported Brazilians of the United States are, in fact, a “smoke curtain” to hide the alleged “failure” of the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT).

The former Lava Jato judge also said that despite considering an “exaggeration” in the cases of those who are not condemned, the practice he said, “it is not now and will continue to be so” and that the debate around the case It is “political exploitation.”

The deported Brazilians who arrived in Brazil on Friday, 24, reported scenes of violence and abuse during the flight, where they were handcuffed.

The aircraft was under the custody of the US government and stopped in Manaus because it had technical problems. The rest of the trip, to Belo Horizonte, was made on a flight from the Brazilian Air Force (FAB). By determination of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, the handcuffs were removed in the second stretch of the route.

After the period when Moro was Minister of Justice and Public Security of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, Brazil even asked the US government that Brazilians would not be handcuffed on flights in September 2021. At the time, Itamaraty, Under the command of Carlos França, he stressed that most deported citizens, who were handcuffed by the feet and hands, had no prior criminal conviction and was not threat to the safety of the aircraft.

This Sunday, the folder reacted to the case, publishing a note that says that the indiscriminate use of handcuffs and currents violates the terms of the agreement with the US, “which provides for the decent, respectful and human treatment of repatriads.” Itamaraty said it will ask clarification on what happened to the US government.

Although the mass deportation of illegal immigrants is one of President Donald Trump’s main campaign promises, the deportation flight to Brazil with 158 people, 88 Brazilians is the result of the administration of former President Joe Biden.

In addition to giving an opinion on Brazil, Moro also follows the case of Colombia, in which President Gustavo Petro refused the entry of two planes that took illegal immigrants back to the country and gave order for the presidential plane to fetch the deported in the US. The act made Trump, in retaliation to Petro, impose a series of economic and diplomatic sanctions – which later implied a retreat of the Colombian government and agreement between the two countries.

Moro reposed a text by Iván Duque, former president and main oppositionist to Petro, in which the Colombian says that the government “challenged a sovereign decision of the United States” and said that “diplomacy and intelligence” need to prevail with “ideological explosions” and the whims of the Petro government. ”