...the same thing happened to the french nuns alice domon and leonie renée duquet. i had the chance to speak with sister alice personally, she had already been taken along with sister renée to the third floor of the officers' mess in the esma, that was where i found her captive. this happened around december 11 or 12. i remember that was when she had been kidnapped at the church. i was soon aware of 13 people; the sisters were weak and badly beaten; alice already needed two guards to carry and maintain her in the bathroom. i asked if they had been tortured and they answered yes: they had been tied to a bed completely naked and stabbed all over their body; in addition they told of later being forced to write a letter to the leader of their congregation, they wrote it in french under constant torture, afterward they both had a photo taken of them seated next to a table. the pictures were taken to the basement of the same building where the torture took place: the basement of the officers' mess. they were both at esma about 10 days, tortured and interrogated. later the eleven remaining people were transferred. the rumours mention the haste of their departure; this indicates the murders of the same (testimony of horacio domingo maggio, file #4450).