Gare de Montparnasse was packed as passengers wait to see if their trains will ever get moving again.
Passengers queue up at Eurostar rail terminal at St Pancras International station in London Russian sabotage; France’s rail network paralysed; at least 800,000 passengers affected; Eurostar trains cancelled… It’s fair to say it felt as if France was ‘under attack’ ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris. Distracted by Celine Dion’s performance during the Opening Ceremony along the River Seine, grave issues in the hours before may have been overlooked – but there were many.
‘What we know, what we see, is that this operation was prepared, coordinated, that nerve centres were targeted, which shows a certain knowledge of the network to know where to strike,’ he said. The Paris prosecutor’s office said that an investigation would be overseen by its organised crime office, with the anti-terrorist sub-directorate , a branch of the judicial police that typically monitors far-left, far-right and radical environmental groups, coordinating investigations.
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