With the onset of the summer heat tempers were rising violently, and a deadly pattern established itself, with the F.L.N. generally killing between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m., so as to catch victims on their way to work, the O.A.S. Deltas carrying out their opérations ponctuelles in the evening when their victims were returning from work.

XREF: Connects to patterns of targeted urban violence and assassination timing in other colonial/insurgency conflicts.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1484