French rail lines disrupted by ‘coordinated sabotage’ ahead of Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony (www.cnn.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 08:15
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xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jul 2024 08:21 next collapse

Specifically Eurostar - not SNCF what any reasonable person means if they’re talking about “French Rail Lines”.

Deebster@programming.dev on 26 Jul 2024 08:30 collapse

Where are you getting that from? The article you’re commenting on say otherwise:

France’s state railways company SNCF called the overnight disruption a “massive attack aimed at paralyzing the high-speed line network.”

Similar article from The Standard

They were focused on the TGV high speed train network which covers the whole of France, and which is particularly busy at this time of year.

Eurostar’s Brussels-Lille-London trains are not affected.

xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jul 2024 08:35 collapse

A misunderstanding it’d seem - Eurostar was complaining about delays on their London-Paris route and I misread it as being on the exclusive sections of track.

VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jul 2024 11:47 collapse

Trains are so vulnerable to sabotage, one bit of damage and the whole network is fucked.

Is there any idea who did this? Scary there are so many possibilities

gnutrino@programming.dev on 26 Jul 2024 11:55 collapse

Well given they arrested a Russian agent on Wednesday for plotting to disrupt the Olympics there are suspicions about who could be behind it but we’ll have to wait and see…