European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They came around a week after they had arrested them, still in August.
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I was questioned for a whole day.
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In the morning I was interrogated by the chief of UPI and by one of the commissioners, I think it was Dr. Cocconi.
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He was the cousin of the second-in-command
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of the central headquarters of the partisans operating in the mountains.
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I was questioned very harshly. They were accusing me.
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I was denying, claiming that I had gone there only to get some eggs,
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that a man had asked me for my ID card and I didn’t even know who he was.
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This went on for two or three hours.
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Then they said they were going to put me face to face with the man who had taken my ID card.
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They brought this man inside, he was in plain clothes but all dressed up, wearing a tie.
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I knew that partisans were tortured, and since he hadn’t been tortured…
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So he began to tell what I had done, saying that my brother was a partisan and I had gone there to pick up a gun.
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At that point I just lost the light of reason.
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That was my luck, since I reacted in a very aggressive way:
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“You’re a scoundrel, I went to pick up a gun?
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When I got there you asked me for my ID card, you took note of my name,
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and as you saw I lived in Reggio, you said you knew my brother…”
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I had to say this, since my brother had already gone to the mountains, it could have saved me.
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“You told me I had to bring a gun to him, but how could I say no to you?
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