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FRANCE’S TRAIN NETWORK HIT BY ARSON ATTACKS HOURS BEFORE OLYMPIC CEREMONY

By Dominique Vidalon and Elizabeth Pineau
July 26, 20242:30 PM GMT+2Updated 22 min ago
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 * Possible suspects include leftist militants, environmental activists
 * Worldwide audience will watch opening ceremony

PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - Saboteurs struck France's TGV high-speed train
network in a series of pre-dawn attacks across the country, causing travel chaos
and exposing security gaps ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony later on
Friday.
The coordinated sabotage took place as France mounted a massive security
operation involving tens of thousands of police and soldiers to safeguard the
capital for the sporting extravaganza, sucking in security resources from across
the country.
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SNCF, the state-owned railway operator, said vandals had damaged signal boxes
along the lines connecting Paris with cities such as Lille in the north,
Bordeaux in the west and Strasbourg in the east. Another attack on the
Paris-Marseille line was foiled.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Two security sources said the
modus operandi meant initial suspicions fell on leftist militants or
environmental activists, but they said there was not yet any evidence.
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Prime Minister Gabriel Attal declined to speculate about the possibility of such
groups being behind the sabotage.
"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 coordinated strikes on the rail network will feed into a sense of
apprehension ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony in the heart of Paris later
on Friday. Operations at the Basel-Mulhouse airport on France's border with
Switzerland were briefly suspended due to a bomb alert.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said he had full
confidence in the French authorities. "I don't have concerns," he told reporters
at the Olympic Village.
More than 300,000 spectators are expected to line the banks of the River Seine
when the athletes parade through the heart of Paris on a flotilla of barges and
riverboats, part of an extravagant opening ceremony that will be watched by a
global audience.

France is deploying 45,000 police, 10,000 soldiers and 2,000 private security
agents to secure the Games' opening ceremony. Snipers will be on rooftops and
drones keeping watch from the air.
But while the capital is locked down for the opening ceremony, security
elsewhere in the country is lighter.
Item 1 of 8 Travellers from Sydney, Australia, wait outside the Gare
Montparnasse train station as they try to search for other trains after their
trip was affected when vandals targeted France's high-speed train network with a
series of coordinated actions that brought major disruption, ahead of the Paris
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[1/8]Travellers from Sydney, Australia, wait outside the Gare Montparnasse train
station as they try to search for other trains after their trip was affected
when vandals targeted France's high-speed train network with a series of
coordinated actions that brought major disruption, ahead of the Paris...
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The TGV high-speed rail attacks left hundreds of thousands of people stranded at
stations.
Eurostar's high-speed services linking London and Paris were forced onto slower
lines while Germany's Deutsche Bahn warned of disruption to long-distance
services.
The SNCF urged all travelers to postpone their journeys. Repairs were underway
but traffic would be severely disrupted until at least the end of the weekend.
At the Gare de L'Est, Xavier Hiegel, 39, said he was just trying to get home for
the weekend and could not believe that people would want to harm the Olympics.
"The Games bring jobs so this really is nonsense. I hope the people responsible
will be found and punished," he said.
The attacks hit signaling installations on the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern
high-speed lines with fires set off by explosive devices, the SNCF said.
SNCF chief Jean-Pierre Farandou said some 800,000 customers had been impacted
ahead of a busy weekend for French holidaymakers. Thousands of rail staff had
been deployed to repair the damage.
"This attack is not a coincidence, it's an effort to destabilise France,"
Valerie Pecresse, president of the Paris region, told reporters.
Paris 2024 said it was working closely with the SNCF to assess the situation.
The attacks will make it tougher for people traveling to Paris from other areas
of France.
"It's a disaster," said Parisian Brigitte Dupont. "Today is the opening of the
Olympic Games, a huge event that was supposed to be magnificent, and this is
spoiling people's joy."

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