Herminio da Palma Inácio

Herminio da Palma Inacio was a Portuguese revolutionary against the Salazar dictatorship. Famously, he hijacked an airplane in Morocco, forced it to fly over Lisbon dropping leaflets calling for free elections. He then allowed the plane to return to Morocco, apologized to the passengers, presented all the ladies onboard with a rose, and then vanished. [ [http://www.slate.com/id/2147787/nav/tap2/ Terrorists ain't what they used to be. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine ] ] .

He is also protagonist of a spectacular evasion from a political prision in Lisbon during the fascist dictatorship, jumping over the prision wall without having sight of the place where he would land, which almost cause his death since he landed over a prision guard. Nevertheless, he succedded scaping the persecution of this and yet another police officer that came in his direction alerted by the buzz of his fall. Later, he joined again the clandestine resistence against the fascism, the colonial war and the dictatorship repression.

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