Hermínio da Palma Inácio

A brief moment of the guard's absence allowed him to throw himself through the window, at a height of around 15 meters from the ground, falling outside the building next to the sentry, who had no time to react.

Palma Inácio disappeared into a crowd and fled to Morocco and then to the United States, and then to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where he joined other opponents of the Salazar regime.

[1] From Paris, the LUAR (Liga de Unidade e Ação Revolucionária) — and Palma Inácio planned another coup, which would ultimately fail to take the city of Covilhã, and he was arrested and detained by the PIDE.

In November 1973, after having entered Portugal clandestinely for yet another operation, Palma Inácio was once again detained by the Direcção Geral de Segurança (DGS), the successor to the PIDE.

As António de Almeida Santos argues in the book Quase Retratos, Palma Inácio's actions were guided by a scrupulous desire to avoid bloodshed.