On Monday 26 July at around 11pm, a fire broke out along the tracks of the TER between Narbonne (Aude) and Nissan-lez-Enserune (Hérault), next to an electrical substation, destroying cables but also damaging the technical room.

The result? Since 11pm on Monday, “hundreds of trains have been affected”, says the SNCF, including the total halt of regional traffic all morning on Tuesday between Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) and Montpellier (Hérault). At the national level of TGV and Intercity trains, “trains departing from Paris for Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) this Tuesday morning will either be cancelled or limited”, explains the SNCF, and journeys departing from Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) or Barcelona (Catalonia), initially via Montpellier and Toulouse, will also be affected.

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Surrey (British Columbia), July 19: the only church that illuminates is the one in flames

A new church burns down in British Columbia

Radio Canada, 19 July 2021

St. George’s Orthodox Church in Surrey, Greater Vancouver, was destroyed in a fire on Monday morning. It joins a growing list of religious institutions ravaged by fire in recent weeks. At about 3:30 a.m., 10 trucks and 32 firefighters were deployed to the scene of the fire in Surrey’s Whalley neighbourhood. No one was injured and no other buildings were affected by the fire, according to authorities.

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Ardèche: an RTE electrical substation targeted by an arson attack
Le Dauphiné, 14 July 2021

On the night of Tuesday 13 to Wednesday 14 July, an electrical substation belonging to RTE (Réseau de transport d’électricité), which manages the electricity transmission network, was the target of an arson attack in Lachapelle-sous-Aubenas, in the South Ardèche. This installation is used to transport electricity.

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L’Ardennais / Wednesday, July 7, 2021

It was about 5:30 this Wednesday morning when firefighters were mobilized to a violent fire at the Borgniet/Dupré bailiffs’ office in rue des Evignes.

The fire destroyed a large part of the building, and the police made the usual observations. Also on the spot, an employee spoke of “catastrophe”, the flames having consumed important legal documents. “It’s crazy,” said the employee, moved.

same rag / Thursday, July 8, 2021

The fire at the bailiffs’ office, which burned Wednesday morning, was “arson,” confirmed the public prosecutor, Laurent de Caigny.

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Creil: fire “probably” criminal of a building belonging to Suez

AFP, 8 July 2021 (extract)

A fire “probably” deliberately destroyed a building belonging to the Suez group in Creil (Oise) on the night of Wednesday 7 to Thursday 8 July, according to the public prosecutor’s office, a source close to the investigation establishing a link with the recent installation of video surveillance. According to the police, the fire broke out at around 00:30 in an administrative building of Suez Eau France.

“It almost completely destroyed one of the buildings dedicated to water activities, (…) which houses activities related to customer service, computer servers and archives,” without causing any injuries, a Suez spokeswoman told AFP. “An investigation is underway and in view of the testimonies, it is more than likely that the fire was deliberate,” Jean-Baptiste Bladier, the Senlis public prosecutor, told the AFP news agency. “We are not ruling out a link with the firing of fireworks during the day at a newly installed surveillance camera,” he added. According to a source close to the investigation, “video surveillance cameras had just been installed at a water tower…”.

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Action in Caen

17 June 2021

During the night, we vandalized the Socialist Party office (rue Paul Toutain) in Caen. We tagged their facade and embellished it with some rotten eggs (but less rotten than these politicians).

The choice could have been made just as well on the premises of the National Front, the Republicans, the LREM, or La France Insoumise, on any party that participates in this biased political game and in the progression of conservative, republican and reactionary ideas.

Down with their elections, long live self-determination!

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Still no phone in Mont-d’Origny, the Orange network has been sabotaged in several places

Aisne Nouvelle, 30 June 2021 (extract)

For about ten days, many homes in the district were without an Internet connection. If this is bearable for a few hours, it becomes complicated to live like this for several consecutive days. Fortunately, the network came back on Monday during the day.  It turns out that the breakdown is linked to several acts of malice. “I got information about the problem. Orange told me that there had been acts of sabotage in several places on the network. There were wires cut with pliers,” explains Gérard Allart, the mayor.

What is more serious is that, at present, the inhabitants, although they have access to the Internet again, are still unable to use the fixed telephone network. Here again there has been damage. “The telecom wire was cut in two places on one line, for example,” continued the mayor, who spoke to the employees who worked in the municipality. “They told me it was deliberate. They showed me the footprints on the electricity poles. The people went up and cut them”, the mayor lamented.

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A guide to putting Toulouse’s cameras into early retirement.

This guide only deals with methods of destroying camera cabling. To destroy the camera itself you have to knock down the mast or climb to the top to break the camera, this requires heavy and cumbersome equipment (disk cutter, ladder …) and  is therefore another story.

 1 – Scouting

The location:

Movement of people and vehicles, cameras (public or private) with a view of the targeted camera, nearby cops/vigilantes/etc.

What the camera is attached to:

On a wall, on a mast, the type of mast (old style light grey or dark grey and smooth for the new ones).

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“Dirty Pig”: the car of a municipal policeman of Tours tagged and damaged by fire

France Bleu, June 25, 2021 (extract)

A municipal policeman of Tours, living about twenty kilometers from Tours, has been in shock since Wednesday night when an attempt was made to set fire to his personal car, around 2 am. A “tag” was also left on his hood, “dirty pig”, an inscription “in the form of a scratch with a key, or a screwdriver” he explains.

*Remi was asleep when his wife was awakened by noises coming from outside his house, around 2am. She first saw a bright orange color, similar to flames. When he went outside, *Remi did not see anyone, but smelled a strong odor of gasoline. He then saw traces of attempted fire on his vehicle, as well as impacts on the window, proof that the passenger window was forced, also without result.

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