French rail network hit by arson, canceling trains ahead of Olympics [Video]

Passengers gather around the departure boards at the Gare Montparnasse train station in Paris on July 26, 2024 as France’s high-speed rail network was hit by malicious acts disrupting the transport system hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

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International rail operator Eurostar said it would cancel a quarter of its services on Friday and over the weekend, after France’s high-speed rail network faced coordinated acts of vandalism just ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris.

Domestic rail services were also widely disrupted.

French railway operator SNCF said in a statement that its network had experienced several concurrent attacks early Friday morning, with fire damaging its facilities and its fiber optic lines. The high-speed LGV Atlantique line between Paris and Bordeaux was hit, along with northern and eastern lines, causing knock-on disruption that SNCF expected will impact hundreds of thousands of people through the weekend.

SNCF later saidthat a “very …

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