Rudolf Vojtěch

"Finally, after five or six two-hour interrogations, I was told they were waiting for the prosecutor to sign my arrest. So I waited, and then they brought me down to the ground floor of the crime lab. In Chomutov, where the criminal detention centre is located, there is a vestibule supported by these columns. And there they chained me to one of the pillars and left me there for three and a half hours waiting for the prosecutor to approve it and for the escort to come and get me. People saw me there. It was the morning of the fourth of October, and people saw me there and looked at me, questioning what I was doing there, chained up like a dog."

"The interesting thing is that I have allegedly been followed since about 1976. But my father won the lottery. Sixty grand, big money back then, and he paid for our holiday in Cyprus. So me, my ex-wife, my daughter and my mum went to Cyprus in '77! And they let me go. I got the impression that they must have thought we were going to stay there and that they were going to get rid of me."

"Because we were well-known in that club (Švermák in Chomutov) - there were some 150 members - when our friends found out we were in custody, they covered our table where we were used to sit with black cloth. As a mourning. Then, when they let us out after those three days, of course, we celebrated. It was a kind of cohesion of those people who tended to like the music and didn't like the course of things here."