Manuel Fiel Filho
WHERE - DOI-CODI, São Paulo.
WHO - Manuel Fiel Filho, 47 years,
two daughters, metalurgy worker,
DOI-CODI torturers.
WHAT - Killed 3 months after
journalist Wladimir Herzog.
He also was victm of the farse.
The authorities said that
he commited suicide by
strangling himself with
his socks, a unique case
in the annais of the Legal
Medicine.
But the government
of the General Geisel assumed
the guilt by dismissing Military
Commander, General Ednardo d'Ávila.
HOW - Beatings, electrical chocks and other DOI-CODI methods.
WHY - Because he was trying to reorganize the Communist Party,
in a inquiry where all the involved were later acquited.
". . . a violent blow with the elbow was striken in his spleen region, according to a witness, that made Manuel scream and fall down, and they took him right away out of the room. Later, he was found dead in his cell, and somebody said: Poor of the one who would say anything about this".
Testimony of Sebastião de Almeida, to the Peace and Justice Comission
in S.Paulo. The Herzog Dossie by Fernando Jordão. Sebastião was jailed together with Fiel.Photos: Fiel and his wife. Reproduction of the official document proving
the suicide thesis.
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