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THE GEPAN Bothered. When the scientists again offered Franck Fontaine the opportunity to spend a few days at the Bonneval Clinic for testing, he stated that he would only do it if Dr. Vivien Hassoun came with him, which was agreed to, but the proposed trip never happened. 131 PURPLE JUSTICE must therefore cooperate with the authorities, they suggested, instead of "covering up" his obvious hoax. At 4:00 P.M. the principals were driven to the Court Building, where they were kept waiting for two hours by the District Attorney, who finally consented to interrogate them. With the District Attorney were four scientists from GEPAN, led by Dr. Alain Esterle, a French space scientist. They offered to accompany the witness for a series of examina- tions at the Bonneval Clinic, a government-sponsored medical estab- lishment directed by Professor Faure. Franck did not exactly refuse the offer, but he suggested instead that they meet with him the next morning to discuss it, after he had had a chance to rest. The police and the District Attorney finally told the group that no charges of any kind would be brought against them. INVESTIGATION The simplest way to summarize the work done by GEPAN is to follow step-by-step the official report issued by the group under the title of Technical Note No. 6, dated March 31, 1981. The investigation was conducted by Alain Esterle, assisted by M. Jimenez, Jean-Paul Rospars, and P. Teyssandier. Their report contains an appendix on "tabulation, delirium and ufological themes" by Dominique Andrerie. "As scheduled, on Tuesday December 4, 1979 we presented our- selves at 10:00 A.M. at Prevost's apartment," begins the GEPAN inves- tigation report. No one responded. Salomon did not answer his door either. Phone calls to various group members were equally futile. It took all day for the scientists to finally meet with the group, and the discus- sion began on the theme We Are Tired, and We Don't Want To Be The first part of the meeting, which was attended by the local