European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Once we arrived in Florence, however, the Carabinieri decided to get off and change train.
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Later I understood that they did this to prevent me from talking to the people that were on the first train.
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The other one – from Bologna to Reggio Emilia – was a lot less crowded.
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When we arrived in Reggio Emilia I was immediately taken to the Police Station.
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There, I was confronted with a lot of stories, and I still had to deal with the issue of the letter.
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I would have never told anything to the authorities,
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but Pagliarello had my letter in his hands while he questioned me, and I did not know what to say.
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At a certain point, although I was handcuffed,
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I managed to see out of the corner of my eye that he was about to hit me from behind,
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so I protected myself: he ended up hitting the handcuffs, got angry and smacked me a couple of times.
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We were all waiting in line. There were people
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like the guy who told on me, a baker whose name was Montermini.
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He was sentenced to fifteen years by the special court, and served quite a few of them.
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We were the last ones, and our sentences were lighter: as for myself, I was sentenced to four years of confinement.
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Nobody defended you, it was only up to you to stand up for yourself.
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In any case, when you got into the movement you were aware that there would not be much you could do:
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we all knew that if we got caught we would end up doing a couple of years.
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It came to no surprise.
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I spent two months in the San Tommaso prison, in Reggio Emilia,
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before they were forced to transfer us to make room for new inmates.
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