Arson attacks paralyze French high-speed rail network hours before start of Olympics

Over 800,000 passengers unable to travel to the French capital – French railways say mass attack and vandalism. Sabotage on high-speed trains happened in France, just before the start of the Olympic Games , while more than 800 thousand passengers cannot move in the French capital.

The French railway company SNCF suffered during the night of Thursday to today Friday (25-26/7) a “massive attack of a range capable of causing paralysis” of the TGV high-speed train network,

which was “largely disrupted”, it informed to AFP, a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

We are diverting some trains to classic lines, but we will have to cancel a large number” of routes, SNCF added in a statement.

The French railway company clarified that “this situation is expected to last at least throughout the weekend, while repairs are carried out”.

Three high-speed train lines were vandalized overnight in France, Reuters reported, citing a statement from the state railway company, which caused major traffic problems on the day of the official opening of the Paris Olympics.

An airport on the Switzerland-France border was evacuated for security reasons. New alarm after the attack on the trains, just hours before the start of the Olympic Games.

“For security reasons, the terminal had to be evacuated and is currently closed,” Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport said on its website.

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There were also incidents of schools and supermarkets closing, and card payment systems crashing in businesses.

An industry analyst counted 1,396 cancelled flights wordwide. In some cases there were no screens working to announce the cancelled flights. In the UK, the 143 cancelled departures and 142 cancelled arrivals coincided with the busiest day for air travel bookings so far this year.

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