PARIS, July 26 — Arson attacks scrambled France’s high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers today, after what officials called premeditated acts of...
PARIS, July 26 — Arson attacks scrambled France ’s high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers today, after what officials called premeditated acts of “sabotage” just hours before the Paris Olympics opened.
SNCF chief executive Jean-Pierre Farandou said the attackers had started fires in “conduits carrying multiple cables” that carry “safety information for drivers” or control the motors for points.Around 800,000 passengers are expected to be affected over the weekend as the damage is heavy and labour-intensive to repair.
At Paris’s Montparnasse train station, passengers were waiting for information, with display boards showing delays of more than two hours.“Normal traffic is expected to resume on Monday, July 29,” read one of the signs in the departure hall. France’s intelligence services were scrambling to determine the perpetrators of the sabotage, a security source told AFP. The arson method used resembled past attacks by extreme-left actors, the source added.
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