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Leonardo Rodrigues Pareja (Goiânia, March 26,1974 — Aparecida de Goiânia, December 9, 1996) was a Brazilian criminal.

He began his path of fame in September of 1995 when, after robbing a hotel in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia, he kept a 16 year old girl as a hostage for three days. The girl was Fernanda Viana, niece of then senator Antônio Carlos Magalhães. In this episode, Pareja began to gain fame as daring when negotiating with the police covered by sheets in order to make impossible the interference of snipers.

After freeing the girl, he spent more then a month running from the police and meanwhile gave interviews to radio stations and on television, always mocking and challenging the police. Sometimes he even announced he was going to certain municipalities, but always managed to escape.

In April of 1996 he commanded a rebellion of seven days no Penitentiary Centre of Goiás (CEPAIGO), in the city of Aparecida de Goiânia, when he and 43 more inmates escaped after taking several authorities as hostage, including the president of the Justice Tribunal of Goiás, Judge Homero Sabino.

In the same year, he was the subject of the documentary Vida Bandida-Leonardo Pareja realized by Régis Faria.

He was betrayed and killed in prison in December of 1996, for having betrayed an escape plan.

He inspired the author from Curitiba Leandro França in the book Ensaio de uma vida bandida, released in 2008.References