He re -circulated on social networks an old rumor saying he was accused of carrying out 38 -caliber robberies at bank branches. However, there are no records of crime complaints against the journalist. She was arrested during 1972 when she was 19 for political reasons.
According to the registration of the Military Public Prosecution Service, made available by, the accusation against Miriam was for “grouping harmful to national security and subversive propaganda”. The journalist was a PCdoB militant, who acted clandestinely in the country at the time. She was tried and acquitted for the complaints in August 1974.
Unlike the publication, the acquittal happened five years before the promulgation of the Amnesty Law, sanctioned in 1979, which granted forgiveness to the accused of political crimes in the dictatorship.
The rumor has been shared for years on social networks and originates in a false claim that the journalist would have robbed Banco Banespa, in the city of São Paulo, in 1968. However, Miriam was 15 at the time and lived in Caratinga, his hometown, in the interior of Minas Gerais.
Miriam said he was arrested by military in Vitória, Espírito Santo, on his way to the beach. She reported that she was tortured pregnant, beaten, threatened with rape and left alone, naked, in a room with a boa. The photo used in the fake publication was published in the book “In the Name of Parents” by Matheus Leitão, son of the journalist, about the mother’s history in prison. The code name “Amelia” was used by Miriam in militancy by PCdoB.
Abraji (Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism) published, in 2018, one to the lies published against the journalist.
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