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One of us found a large copper pipe.

We had to lower the curtain, since half of it was still hanging.

Five of us went inside, together with two other blindfolded men,

one of whom we doubted being a theatre employee.

We had to use the wooden pulleys. They now use automatic ones.

Anyway, we lowered the curtain and slowly managed to move it. However another problem emerged.

In order not to be fined by the police for bringing such a large truck behind the theatre, one had to ask for permission.

I told them we had to bring out some odds and ends and that we needed the truck to load everything on it.

We were given permission and finally managed to load the curtain on the truck, although a small piece still fell out.

Then we had to think about where to bring it.

We opted for the area of Biasola, where Fiorello and I lived, so that we could keep an eye on it.

Finally we hid the curtain inside Villa Levi.

Sabotage at the airfield

One night we stripped the machine guns from three airplanes in the airfield.

Before we set the airplanes on fire we removed their three famous 7-7 guns, which were very powerful anti-aircraft weapons.

They were bolted to the bearings, in order to rotate,

but we took them down and then set the aircrafts on fire, all three of them.

The machine guns had no tripod though. Fiorello was very good in mechanical work.

He had worked at Bagni’s in Via Toschi, manufacturing and repairing scales, he built the tripods himself.

Once he was stopped by a Black Brigade near the cemetery of Via Cecati while he was taking one home.