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He was a supporter of the governmental repression against leftist clandestine organizations during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Boilesen was killed by militants from Movimento Revolucionário Tiradentes (MRT) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN) on April 15, 1971 in the city of São Paulo, in a planned reprisal for his involvement in the repression. Boilesen immigrated to Brazil in the 1930s.
He participated in founding CIEE - Centro de Integração Empresa Escola and was president of one of the Rotary Club’s sections.
Boilesen was killed by shotgun by the militants of two leftist organizations, on the morning of April 15, 1971. He was killed on the Alameda Casa Branca, the same street on which one of the guerrilla leaders, Carlos Marighela, was killed two years earlier, in an operation led by Deputy Sérgio Fleury in São Paulo Paulo.
(Causa Operária online) The last shot was fired by Carlos Eugênio Paz, aka “Clemente,” one of the commanders in the armed actions of the ALN – Aliança Libertadora Nacional. The documentary Cidadão Boilesen, directed by Chaim Litewski. tells the Boilesen’s life story.
The film discusses Boilesen habit of watching torture sessions, which was confirmed by testimonials given by militants from that time.