As if hosting the Summer Olympics wasn't hard enough.
SNCF employees and French gendarmes inspect the scene of a suspected attack on the high speed railway network at Croiselles, northern France on July 26, 2024.Five telecom stations in France were hit on Sunday night in an attack that shut down some services. French authorities said the attacks looked like sabotage.
The attack happened during the Olympics and followed a similar attack on France’s high-speed rail system that occurred ahead of the. In that attack, someone set fire to three electrical and signal boxes that operate various bits of the country’s high-speed rail network. Early reports indicated that French authorities had disrupted additional, similar, attacks.
It’s not clear if the attacks on the railway line and the telephone systems are connected, but French law enforcement has declined to comment either way. But both attacks are being handled by France’s organized crime office and anti-terrorist task force. Law enforcement might not say who it thinks is behind the attacks, but politicians don’t have the same problem.
“We have identified profiles of several people,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in an interview on France 2. “It’s traditionally the way far-left groups act.”connected to the train sabotage.
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