When the guns fell silent, several MPs lay wounded on the ground.
To assure them of medical help, Lieutenant Mendes Júnior negotiated a ceasefire with the band led by Carlos Lamarca, offering himself as a prisoner on the condition that his men were helped.
Accepting the proposal, the Lieutenant took the custody of the gang, now reduced to five, since two fled during the confrontation.
After two days on the run, Mendes Júnior was no longer useful as a hostage.
“Lieutenant PM Alberto Mendes Júnior, in his short existence of 23 years, fulfilled the ideal of the hero and the saint.
When his turn and time came, he accepted and mastered them, renouncing the opportunity to evade duty, which, as a kind of last test, was concretely presented to him. He became that 'gentle hurricane' of which Jacques Maritain speaks to define the saint.
And, in the solitude of his last moments, in the forever impenetrable mystery of these moments, he was able, in these times of growing hedonism, to perform the evangelical miracle of giving his life for his neighbor - his soldiers”.
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