More than 3,800 unused Molotov cocktails, a landscape of trash and shattered, painted and a foul stench awaited the Hong Kong Police when finally, after 11 days of encirclement, he entered the Polytechnic University on Thursday . The scene of the worst clashes between agents and protesters in almost six months of protests against the autonomous government and against China still hides some participants in the protests, hidden in different corners of the huge campus. How many exactly, nobody has been able to quantify it. It is voxpulpuli that there are a handful of the more than one thousand who came to dig in between 17 and 18; but few have come to see any. During the days of encirclement, the remains of the battlefield - gas masks, fire extinguishers, goggles - have been scattered everywhere, testimonies of what was a fierce struggle of the students to prevent the entrance of the Police on campus and of The agents for breaking through. Some hundreds managed to escape by more or less pilgrims . Most were arrested or ended up delivering. In the courtyard, white and yellow helmets make up the letters of a desolate SOS. A deep silence reigns throughout the enclosure. On a terrace, between earth bags, screws, tools and rubble, the remains of a homemade catapult, made of rubber strips and the remains of a gas mask accumulate. Among broken glass, a graffiti promises "we will take revenge." Another, in Spanish, "until victory, always." For the umbrella floors, cans, fire extinguishers, plastics of uncertain destination. A lawyer's card. Drums, many cans of gasoline. Bottles of all sizes and colors. Whole boxes of Molotov cocktails already prepared and ready for use. A huge graffiti of "No Smoking" on a poster with the garnet and gold colors of the Polytechnic marks one of the points where they were manufactured at mansalva. In a corridor bags with all kinds of garments accumulate; from the canteen, where the remains of food rot, bursts of unbearable smell arrive; In the gym, mats and blankets abandoned in a hurry evoke a natural disaster. Flies flutter. At dawn, one of the entrenched protesters emerges from nothing and rushes across the courtyard, like a ghost in sweatshirt and flip flops. He does not want to give any personal information. He only declares that he refuses to leave even if the police are about to enter. "We will do what we have to do," he states bluntly, as he disappears as furtively as he has arrived. The first to enter the University through a fully calcined entrance are the firefighters, shortly before 08.00 local time (01.00 Spanish peninsular time). Then a group of artisans in black uniforms. Finally, a column of about a hundred agents from the anti-storm department (the local mafia) and other specialists from various ministries. “Several teams of about ten people will visit the different areas of the university, to look for hazardous materials and chemicals. If we see that we can take charge, we will take over. If we find something too serious, the artisans will intervene, ”explained Superintendent Lau Siu Hom. The previous two days, a series of teams made up of professors and University staff, social workers and medical assistants had toured the facilities in search of protesters still hidden, to try to persuade them to surrender. In the first mission, they only managed to find a young woman, who refused to leave. On the second day, nobody. The University had requested help from the Police for the removal of dangerous substances, although it had insisted that the first measure should be the removal of the fence. During the night, after the police announced that they would enter in the morning, a masked man has appeared before the journalists who, in turn, camp inside the campus. He wanted to express his protest for the entry of the agents despite the wishes of the University. According to him, there are about twenty protesters left, although he says he is only in contact with a couple more. “We are not going to look for protesters, and we do not believe that we will come into contact with them. If there are, they will remain hidden. If, for whatever reason, we would find one of them, we would try to convince him to give himself up, but nothing more. We do not believe that they will undertake acts of violence, ”notes Superintendent Lau on the latest irreducible of the Polytechnic. The fence, he says, will not rise until there is certainty that no hazardous materials remain. At the end of the day, the numbers arrive. In total, the Police have found 3,800 Molotov cocktails, 921 gas canisters, 588 drums, bottles or cans of corrosive or inflammatory liquids, and twelve homemade bows and catapults. Cleaning will continue this Friday. https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/11/28/actualidad/1574967049_217136.html