Sare Niccoli, the 17-year-old daughter of a rich textile owner was freed by her kidnappers after 118 days. She said she spent most of the time in a tent in the woods 1 one foot tied to a tree. She was freed late on Friday 2 her family paid a total of $1.8 million, the largest ransom (赎金) 3 paid in Italy.
“I was treated 4 ,” the girl told the reporter during the interview, “Biscuits, cakes, often hot food and at times stewed beef.” She said her nearly four months in trouble was spent in a tent pitched (set up) in a 5 area.
“I never saw their faces and 6 they spoke, they changed their voices in nasal tones (speaking through nose passage) on purpose ,” she said. “They kept repeating that the only thing they wanted was the money and that they didn’t want to have 7 to do with me or my family.”
The high school student, who was seized by three face-covered and armed men on July 2, 1983 from her family’s country villa in Tuscany, said she still had no idea 8 exactly she had been held.