WHERE - Oban, future Doi-Codi of São Paulo.

WHO - Virgílio Gomes da Silva, 36 years of age, former
boxer and a "São Silvestre" marathon runner, chemical
industry worker, married, 3 children. He was a member of
the National Liberation Alliance (ALN), known by the name of
Jonas and leader of the group responsible for the kidnapping
of American ambassador Elbrick; and the following "German"
military personnel (as Virgílio used to call the Oban's torturers).
Captain Albernaz, Captain Homero Cesar Machado and Captain
Dalmo Luiz Cirillo; Major Inocêncio Fabrício de Mattos Beltrão
and PM's Sargent Paulo Bordini, nicknamed "Risadinha" (The
little Laughter), he tortured the victims while laughing hysterically.

WHAT - Detained and tortured with Virgílio, journalist
Antonio Carlos Fon claimed that, only one day after Virgílio's
death, the torturers went to the extreme of torturing his 4-month
old daughter Isabel Gomes da Silva in front of her mother, in order
to force her into talking.

HOW - Hung upside down and tortured, electrical shocks,
severe beating and up to 20 minutes of kicks.

WHY - Even being handcuffed and hung upside down from
his knees, Virgílio slapped and spit on the torturers' faces.

"With hand and feet tied up,
he was then< thrown in a corner
of the room and, during the next
twenty minutes he was cruelly
killed by kicks. The blood stains
remained for several months in the
"torture chamber of Bandeirantes
Operation" - a small 12 x 12 feet
room, blocked by a plywood wall,
located at the end of the second
floor hall of the 34th Police District's
chapel, in São Paulo. His body was
buried by his assassins in a shallow
grave, as indigent, in the cemetery
of Perus (a small city in the
state of São Paulo.

Source:

Torture: History of the political
repression in Brazil.
Antonio Carlos Fon.
Ed. Global, 1979 page 38.