Requiem: Chapter 20

The Resistance was divided into cells of four members. This was a security measure because a larger gathering of individuals was much more likely than a small group of four people looking for a bit of fun in some dark pub..

The 'Won Goed' was the proverbial example of such a dark brown pub. Low light and with a long bar with a row of barstools that had known their better times. Here time had stood still and progress had not been made. Even with the best will and a lot of bleach, the smell of shale beer could not get out of it.. The pub was furnished in two parts. At the front you had a number of round tables where the not real bar hangers could drink their drink. The regulars could come to their liking at a long bar on the right, as long as they were not averse to a sticky bar counter and a nasty swinging bartender. In the deepest part you had two snooker tables that were usually occupied all the time. Above the tables there was a bright lamp that made the green felt of the billiards extra good in the previously dim environment. There were two more doors on the left side of the last billiard table. According to the universal icon, the first door led to the toilets, and above the second there was a sign “Private'. Feliciano remembered that there had ever been a sign “PRIVAL”. But he had, after exploring the meeting place, changed that through the owner of the bar that rented him the space. Especially when he noticed that people were often mistreated..

Feliciano Díaz had sent an innocent message the day before to the other three members of his own cell. It was a sentence they had agreed in advance and that brought them together that evening in the 'Won Goud' in the room behind the door with the sign 'Pprivate'.

Each cell had a leader, and every member of this cell knew only the leader of his own cell. The leader was the exception and also knew the one to whom he had to answer and stood a step higher in the hierarchy of the group. In addition, each department head had a number of leaders of cells who in turn had their contacts. That was one of the ways messages were passed on among the members of the Resistance. For example, instructions were passed from top to bottom and vice versa, but there was also contact at horizontal level. That way only the leader of the cell had contact with other cells. A security measure that had usually proven its advantage. Contact with other cells was reduced to a minimum to benefit the whole of the organization.