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Ejemplo de un alumno del curso de Drama and Storytelling Resources for English Teachers. Why I went to prison. A true story. By Eugenia Jimenez Pacheco.

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Why I went to prison. A true story. 00:00:01
My name is Vicenzo Perugia, and you could say I'm a case in point of opportunity-making the thief. 00:00:07
As you have guessed from my name, I'm Italian, but at the time I committed a robbery, I was living in France. 00:00:15
It was the year 1911, and I was about to become 30. 00:00:24
I looked like any young man of my age, and you could even say I was handsome. 00:00:30
But I was shy and reserved, and wasn't matching to women. 00:00:36
I preferred playing my mandolin. 00:00:40
I had been working for three years for a French company as a painter and decorator, 00:00:44
when one day they called us to do some repair work at the Louvre Museum, 00:00:49
and that's where I met her. 00:00:55
The Gioconda, I mean. 00:00:57
The moment I saw her, I fell in love with her. 00:00:59
I became obsessed with her. 00:01:03
And I was angry at the fact that Napoleon, so I believed, had stolen it from us. 00:01:06
At night, I dreamt of taking her back to Italy where she belonged. 00:01:12
So I plucked up my courage and on Sunday, 20th August, 00:01:20
I stayed in the museum to sleep in a storage room I knew. Early on Monday 00:01:25
morning when the museum was empty all I had to do was unhook the painting from 00:01:32
the wall, tear it away from its frame I just wanted the painting not the frame 00:01:38
which I abandoned under a staircase on my way out. I hid the painting under the 00:01:43
smoke I was wearing and using a screwdriver walked into the street 00:01:49
through a side door in a courtyard. Nobody noticed me as I walked back to my 00:01:55
apartment. I couldn't believe my luck or my cold blood. I hid the Mona Lisa under 00:02:00
the dining table and there it stayed for two years. During this time people flocked 00:02:09
to the museum to see the gap it had left. Newspapers ran stories about it. Everybody 00:02:16
wondered where Mona Lisa was and the police became the butt of many a joke. Eventually, 00:02:23
in 1913, I saw my way out. An Italian dealer called Gary wanted to buy Italian works of art. 00:02:31
I wrote Mr. Gary a letter explaining my situation and he answered he was interested would I visit 00:02:38
him in Florence with the painting. So I took a train and managed to smuggle the Mona Lisa 00:02:47
across the border. Boy was that exciting! In Florence I booked a room in a cheap hotel and 00:02:53
and went to visit Mr. Gheri. He said, listen, I have talked to my friend Giovanni Poggi. 00:03:02
He is the director of the State Museum, the Uffizi Gallery. He would like to have a look 00:03:09
at the painting. If it's authentic, the Italian government is ready to pay you the half million 00:03:15
lire you had asked for. Nothing would make me happier than to see Gioconda in Italy's best 00:03:21
museum, so I agreed to take the painting to the Uffizi. There, a group of experts looked at it 00:03:27
and Poggi said, we think it's original and not a fake, but it will take us a couple of days to run 00:03:35
all the tests. If you don't mind waiting at your hotel, we'll send for you when we are finished 00:03:44
and we'll pay you. 00:03:50
Okay, I said. 00:03:52
I've never been to Florence before, 00:03:54
so I'll do some sightseeing in the meantime. 00:03:56
However, when I arrived at my hotel, 00:03:59
I realized I had fallen in a trap. 00:04:02
The police were waiting for me, 00:04:05
and I was arrested. 00:04:07
There was a trial, but it was in Italy, 00:04:10
where I was a sort of a national hero. 00:04:15
If I had been judged in France, 00:04:18
I bet things would have been different. As it was, I was sentenced to a year and 15 days, 00:04:20
but all I had to spend in prison was seven months. Women sent me love letters and cakes and bottles 00:04:27
of wine, and the Mona Lisa toured some Italian galleries before the authorities returned it to 00:04:34
France, so I think it was worth it. I also returned to France. After the Great War, I married a French 00:04:40
woman and I settled down in a little village in northern France. What will we not do for a beautiful lady? 00:04:51
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