Since Monday evening, a hundred inhabitants of Kochersberg are – or have been – deprived of Internet connection. “Two network cabinets containing fibre optics were vandalised in Schnersheim and Mittelschaeffolsheim,” says Benoit Brechon, managing director of Rosace, the company charged by the Grand Est region with deploying fibre optics in around 700 rural communities.
However, the cabinets appear to have been opened without being broken into. Clearly familiar with the technology they contain, the perpetrator of this malicious act cut the cables at a strategic point, forcing each operator (Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange, SFR, etc.) to come and repair the part that concerns them. Since the beginning of the week, the various providers have been trying to restore the connection for their respective customers.
The motivations of the author of the attack already raised questions: an act of revenge, a militant gesture by an opponent of the fibre optic network? The Rosace company filed a complaint with the gendarmerie. The companies of Strasbourg and Haguenau are in charge of the investigation.
