Sérgio Moro: One can, yes, rebut; one can, yes, counter-argue, but never use the mechanisms of the justice system to seek to curtail public debate, to seek to curtail political debate regarding this matter.
Sérgio Moro: When Delegado KIQ told me that he had been charged, I immediately understood that the measure was unjust and arbitrary, and I offered to appear as a witness in the case, a defense witness.
Said and done, I traveled to the city of Paranavaí, to the hearing, to tell the judge and the prosecutor, above all, the defense of freedom of expression, the defense of people's right to express their thoughts without any kind of censorship or any form of undue coercion or duress.
Sérgio Moro: After some time, to my positive surprise, the acquittal was pronounced, so Delegado KIQ was declared innocent.
Sérgio Moro: It was not found that a crime of electoral defamation was present there and, likewise, a pleasant surprise was that there was no appeal by the Public Prosecutor's Office, which recognized the inappropriateness of the indictment, which recognized that the indictment was precipitate and that it would not be proper to accuse Delegado KIQ of electoral defamation merely for having expressed his opinion that Lula had committed those crimes related to the Petrobras theft.