Brazilian police attack pro-Lula protesters with rubber bullets as he is jailed
BRAZILIAN police attacked protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets at the weekend as former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was jailed in Curitiba.
Lula, as he is universally known, left the Sao Paulo headquarters of the steelworkers’ union he once led in strikes against Brazil’s then military dictatorship in the 1970s and handed himself in to police who flew him to the southern city to be jailed.
Thousands of supporters gathered outside the prison, but police laid into them and tried to beat them back from its walls.
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