Isère: new arson of a relay antenna
Le Dauphiné, May 31, 2022

Since the beginning of the year, the list of relay antennas burned continues to grow in Nord-Isère. The most recent concerns an installation on the town of Soleymieu.

According to information from the Dauphiné Libéré, it was around 7:30 in the morning on Friday 27 May when an employee of the water union was alerted that an electrical fault had just occurred on the water tank located on the village heights. On arriving at the site, Chemin de la Roche, the agent quickly realized that the electrical fault was in fact the fire of a relay antenna located on the same site: flames several meters high ravaged the fence of the installation as well as the pylon. He immediately alerted the fire department who intervened as the fire began to spread to the neighbouring vegetation.
The gendarmes were also alerted. Because of the sensitivity of the site, the gendarmes of the research brigade were also sent on site, with the help of criminal identification technicians from Grenoble. Continue reading Saint-Chef and Soleymieu (Isère) France: the relay antennas go up in smoke →

Beauvais: police premises damaged again in the ZUP
The Beauvais Observer, June 1, 2022

On Saturday May 21, around midnight, one or more individuals set fire to the opening of the municipal police station located in the Champs Dolent shopping center. The firemen intervened.

This is the second act of vandalism after the damage to the window that was reported on May 3 [while this new police station in the Argentine district is due to open soon in the former premises of the Caisse d’épargne].

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A little reminder that we have not forgotten them this Monday morning! Have a good start to the week!

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Rise in incidence of antenna and fibre optic sabotage!

Die Lust der Zerstörung ist zugleich eine schaffende Lust

Bakunin, 1842

Following the coordinated sabotage on April 28 of several sections of fibre optic cables of the French Internet network (in particular that of SFR), the French Federation of Telecoms (FFT), which brings together all major operators, immediately made a show of trying to minimize their impact by highlighting the resilience of networks. And all this, despite the fact that millions of inhabitants of Grenoble, Besançon, Reims or Strasbourg, without counting those of the Paris region and tens of thousands of companies, were temporarily deprived of their electronic leashes. It was a crisis communication of the TFF, intended to reassure the good citizens, while not giving bad ideas to those who could be inspired by this attack, since the traps of these sensitive networks are everywhere, and it is of course impossible to put a cop at the foot of each of them.

Two weeks later, once the storm has passed, it is now far from the white-hot spotlight that the President of the FFT has changed his tune somewhat. In a long alarmist interview given to a specialized economic newspaper, La Tribune, on Tuesday May 10th, Arthur Dreyfuss claims with an eloquent title (“It is necessary to make penalties for acts of vandalism more severe”) that he calls for “a strong hardening of the penal sentences so that they are really dissuasive” against the saboteurs, considering that “the stake is not only to protect the operators, but also all the most sensitive and essential activities of the country”. And what better way to support his carceral statement than to lift a corner of the veil on the real extent of sabotage against communication networks, pointing out their number and their “criminal” character this time, especially for state activities “of security or defense”, which are indeed very dependent on all these cables? Continue reading France: Rise in incidence of antenna and fibre optic sabotage! →

Pamiers (Ariège) : the new car of the police station is no longer

Update on the investigation following the arson of a police vehicle in front of Pamiers police station

La Dépêche, May 2, 2022 (excerpt)

“In front of the police station! This is not a joke! It’s the first time I’ve seen this since I’ve been in Ariège”. The fire that struck a police vehicle parked right in front of Pamiers police station this weekend has left its mark on the world of law enforcement. Continue reading Pamiers (Ariège) : the new car of the police station is no longer (France) →

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New electrical sabotage: Inovallée targeted in turn?
Le Dauphiné, April 14, 2022

After the large high-tech companies of the Crolles basin last week, it is most probably Inovallée, the main technology park of the Grenoble region, which was the target, on Wednesday, of a new sabotage action carried out on an electrical installation. A destructive action which, according to our information, is not in doubt, the public prosecutor of Grenoble having moreover, two hours after the facts, confirmed to the Dauphiné Libéré that the hypothesis of a “criminal act” was privileged. The fire broke out at about 3:30 pm in the enclosure of a high voltage source station of Enedis located at 19, chemin du Vieux-Chêne in Meylan. This installation is located between company buildings and the A41 motorway, in the heart of a technology park with around 380 companies working in the field of digital technologies. Continue reading Meylan (Isère): cutting the power to the digital technology park →

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A vehicle of the penitentiary administration burned in front of the prison of Beauvais

Le Parisien/Courrier picard, April 21, 2022 (excerpt)

During the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a vehicle of the penitentiary administration was burned in front of the prison of Beauvais. An investigation was opened by the public prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the city’s police station to try to identify and arrest the suspect, a hooded individual dressed in black, spotted by the prison’s video surveillance cameras around 1:45 am. Continue reading Beauvais (Oise): fire to the prison vehicle →