Ing. Pavel Keřka

"I was almost at the cordon, and because it didn't look very nice, I was always backing up and looking for a place to leave. Because as I left, or I fired from Baťa on 28 October 1988, I eventually found one entrance where occasionally someone would disappear and not come back. I looked at how it was there, so into that entrance, I was not the first one, therefore, who escaped that way. So into that entrance, first I had to find it, then I had to climb up the garage with confidence, there was a row of garages. There were garages between one yard and the other yard and you had to climb over the garages, jump over the garages, and you had to climb with confidence into the opposite yard. And in that opposite yard you could get through the house to Island Street. It was possible to go around Mikulandská street and Ostrovní street, and this way you could jump over the garages through the backyards. Anyway, that's the way the people in front of me went. There were at least three or four of them that I saw disappear like that in this entrance. What the hell, in front of me, as the lady was pouring the bucket on the crowd - I mean, before they closed it, another lady then apparently found out or got wind that people were running that way, so she went to close the door. So I wasn't stupid enough to go in there right away to argue or ask her or anything like that. I waited a while so I wouldn't be seen. She didn't see me and then I went to the door, tried the door and it was really locked, so I knew it was already wrong so I kicked the door in. I kicked the door in, the old soldier from Janovice was used to different fighting conditions so it didn't cause much trouble. I'd have to have good boots to do it today, I wouldn't have gone for it again if I hadn't climbed over the garage. Well, I got out, and behind me, I even looked at it to see if there were other people coming through. More people were coming through behind the police cordon. I just walked into the yard before the cordon and I came out behind the cordon. I disappeared, so I didn't get hit with the baton once, unfortunately."