The email from the SNCF received Tuesday evening by Valentin sounded the end of the hopes of this young 25-year-old Swiss fan. While he had obtained his tickets for Thursday’s NBA match between the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls in November and prepared his trip to Paris in stride, this student at the Haute Ecole Gestion in Geneva saw the gift of birthday that he offered to his father to fly away after having read the email from the SNCF announcing the cancellation of his Geneva-Paris train.
