Infection

**Saturday 6th November.10:30 h. ** The professor’s assistant decides to go round his place, as the storm seems to give a break. The city slowly recovers from the tremendous deluge.

**11:13 h. ** The police have cordoned off the block. No one is allowed in. Three ambulances are waiting next to the police watch. It is a rare fact that there is nobody by the other side of the cordon. Everyone seems to ignore what the matter is. The upset neighbours are talking about some weird events during the previous night, but the storm sounds as the most probable cause of all that havoc.

**12:10 h. ** The professor’s assistant cannot manage to obtain reliable information, let alone contact him. He decides to return to university.

**12:30 h. ** Something happens in the Paris underground. The first rumours are about groups of hooligans and troublemakers out of control. The riots are rapidly attributed to extreme left-wingers heading to a demonstration organized by the Confédération Nationale du Travail.

**13:35 h. ** The underground is evacuated. Controls are installed by all the underground exits.

**14:40 h. ** All television and radio stations echo the same message: “Very rough riots are occurring at the moment between the capital police and demonstrators, apparently come from all over France and guerrilla-wise organized. Curfew has been established and it is forbidden to go anywhere near the Montmartre district.

**15:48 h. ** Dozens of “Gazelle” and “SA 330 Puma” helicopters from the French army are flying over the capital. Threads of military lorries clogged with soldiers go round the major Parisian avenues. All access to the northern area has been blocked by the army.

**Martes 9 de noviembre14:20 h. ** The President of the Republic, Georges Pompidou, is speaking to the media. The whole population impatiently stand by the radio. In a historical press conference he explains, in solemn countenance, that the terrible riots are finally over.