Martin Adámek

“I know that at the end of our Christmas event, when the purpose was to go out with a candle and someone was blowing it out, then you had to light it up again, so there was a final at the Coal Market. There were dozens of children with candles and suddenly cops with beacons came from all sides. They took me to Bartholomew police station and there I had to explain to them what we were doing there, how we were doing it. From the interrogation I just remember clearly that as the game was trivial - just having a candle, not letting it blow out when you blow it out, you gotta light it from someone else - but it seemed to me that the investigator's intelligence was that I he thought that the rules of the game were so simple and he could understand them. If it was something more complicated, I would probably stay there. I thought that we had such a trivial game, and even the cops could understand that it was no anti-state act, but simply a Christmas celebration that the children would meet and play the game around the city. Of course, then the parents, the head of our club, had to be interrogated too, or in fact we functined under physical education unit, so the head of the unity was made responsible.”