Kamil Krůta

"We left the prison and they took us on some buses to the first station and there was a shop open. And now all the con men went and bought up all the booze that was there and we got on the train that was going to Prague. So it must have been a short distance from Rakovnik. And now within ten minutes they were all drunk, and as they hadn't drunk for a long time, they all started to get aggressive and brutal fights started, with everybody taking things out on each other. And in this state of mind we arrived at the station in Holešovice, I think, I don't remember exactly, but I think it was Holešovice. And there was a special unit waiting there, and they were just pulling people off the train. And bloody, dismembered guys were climbing off the train. The whole time my friend and I, with this guy Štěrba, were still sewn up in the toilet, and we had a badge, and we were just slowly moving around, and we were locked in, so that nobody could get at us and we wouldn't get into any trouble. Because it was very clear to me that that was the first way to go back to detention."

"[In Frankfurt am Oder] they mysteriously pulled me off the train and mysteriously never once looked at me and didn't really care what I was going to do. All they told me was that I was to go back home via Berlin. That I couldn't go that way, and I went down the hill a short distance from the station, and there you could see the river, the crossing, and I realized - I already knew from the map that I was at the border. I was just following the river, just a few kilometres, and there I decided in a hurry to cross the river because it was getting dark. Of course, I didn't realize that the backpack would be stretched with water because it was made of that raincoat, waterproof [fabric]. So I thought it would last for a while, and it didn't. So I ended up drowning everything and all I had left was my pants and my shirt. - So the cutlery stayed in the Oder? - Cutlery, passport, money, shoes, everything. I scrambled out of the water on the other side and now it was completely silent. Suddenly I hear some footsteps and I think: 'Wow, it's some border guards, I have to watch out for that'. Finally the moon came out and I saw that it was cows grazing. So I walked around the cows, through some swamps, and I was a little bit worried because I was going into the swamps in the blind at different times. Eventually I got onto some dirt road that I was walking on, and I don't know how long it took me to get to the edge of the village and I could see cigarette lights there. There were some young boys sitting there smoking and I joined them and they took me home to their house."