WHERE - District of Perus, 46th Police
Department, near Pico do Jaraguá
(about the latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn).
São Paulo.

WHO - Homero Lopes, driver;
Officer Paulo Camargo; Cleber Souza Rocha,
officer and Geography "teacher"; chiefs of police
José R. Souza Campos and Olivais Fontoura Filho;
clerk José Ivo Moreira; block inspector Edvaldo
Sales da Silva; police messenger João Carlos
Costa dos Santos; and the chief of investigators
Wanderlei Miranda.

WHAT - Aézio case, São Paulo: It happened
a month later. They were both minimum wage
workers, with no criminal record with the police.
In both cases the Justice System investigated
and the policemen were actually arrested.
In the Homero case, the primary suspect,
Cleber Souza Rocha as was known later,
used to carry a briefcase in which the students
supposed there were Geography books;
but actually there were torture instruments in it,
such as a sawed-off billiard cue,
a candle, handcuffs, etc..

HOW - Brutal beating with billiard cue,
pau-de-arara (a Brazilian term for a stick
where people are hung upside down and tortured),
electrical shocks, candles up their rectum, etc..

WHY - Suspicion of involvement in a theft group.

"Protected by two huge body guards
and by a black woman, who allegedly
used violence to keep reporters away,
police investigator Cleber de Souza Rocha,
accused as the main suspect in the torturing
of driver Homero Lopes (who died after
nine days of awful treatment and torture
in the 46th Police Department), denied
having any participation in the crime during
a 90 minute questioning session, yesterday,
by judge Manoel Carlos Vieira de Morais,
of the 11th Criminal Court.
With a warrant out for his arrest since
September 5 of last year, he finally
appeared on the 31st of last month
and turned himself over to the Civil
Police Prison, where he now remains.
³When he was leaving, de Souza Rocha
tried at any cost to avoid being
photographed, as he quicly ran to the
nearby police car that was to transport him.
It took the protection of two police
bodyguards to hold back the reporters
as they escorted him to the car.
"NOTÍCIAS POPULARES, SP.
Torturer denies...6/2/80