Jaromír Vicher

“In September ‘83, it was warm, we were sitting at Závora at the Travní cesta station and we heard [the sound of a burner]. So we looked, nothing anywhere. We lightened it there with the headlights that were on the Závora. Nothing anywhere and again after a while [burner sound]. Only then did he come - because the grassy road was in such a hollow and towards that Zlom station and in the direction of Laa [an der Thaya] it was a bit uphill. So, we noticed that a balloon was flying there and it occasionally ignited the flames. I remember his bike hanging there, I see it like today. So, of course the announcement, no one wanted to shoot, they did not shoot. And by the time it got somewhere, he was already in Austria. Of course, we got in the car and drove. He flew between the wires and through the state border and got to the section of the company Březí, where it was 60 meters to Austria, in that short track. And there was already the town of Laa [an der] Thaya, where he landed somewhere. We saw how it landed, we could see how the flames were lower and lower. And he was there!”

"That they sprayed them with water, that somebody…" Take it that the boys were nineteen, twenty. And they said to them, 'Beat them.' And if you give someone power, they will use it at that moment. I doubt anybody of those riot policemen would… It was either a school emergency department, or it was a Prague police school, or how it was called. These were the boys who either came from the military service and did basic police training, or they were the boys who were there at the military service. It was also done this way. Graduates and non-graduates. As graduates, we went to Zastávka near Brno, and those who did not have a high school diploma went to Brno at a baton."