July 2024: Sabotage attack on FRA trains

[The Bread Guy]

As usual, initial report caveats apply ....

Paris prosecutor opens probe into 'criminal' attack on France's high-speed train network

French train operator SNCF on Friday said that the country’s high-speed network had been targeted with widespread and "criminal" acts, disrupting travel for hundreds of thousands of people just hours…

www.france24.com

800,000 impacted by French rail 'sabotage' ahead of Olympics

www.france24.com

'Sabotage' on French rail network before Olympics: What we know

Arson attacks scrambled France's high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers on Friday, after what officials called premeditated acts of "sabotage" just hours before the Paris Olympics…

www.rfi.fr

Arson attacks halt trains across France ahead of Olympics opening

France’s state-owned rail company SNCF says a 'massive attack' aimed at paralysing the high-speed network is causing delays and cancellations. #EuropeNews

www.euronews.com

France investigates 'massive attack' on fast train network – DW – 07/26/2024

French intelligence is working to identify who is behind acts of intentional vandalism on several high-speed rail routes. The incidents, which have led to disruption, come ahead of the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

www.dw.com

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And remember ....

 

[Blackadder1916]

Something happening was probably not unexpected.

Russian spy arrested in Paris after alleged plan to 'destabilize' Olympic Games

A former reality TV star trained at a Parisian culinary school, a 40-year-old Russian national and FSB agent had boasted of disrupting the opening ceremony of the Olympics, before he was arrested on July 21. Le Monde has retraced his steps.

www.lemonde.fr

 

[The Bread Guy]

Something happening was probably not unexpected.

Russian spy arrested in Paris after alleged plan to 'destabilize' Olympic Games

A former reality TV star trained at a Parisian culinary school, a 40-year-old Russian national and FSB agent had boasted of disrupting the opening ceremony of the Olympics, before he was arrested on July 21. Le Monde has retraced his steps.

www.lemonde.fr

Purely co-incidence, I'm sure -- some poor RUS national there to see the churches, no doubt ....

That said, French protesters from both ends of the political spectrum can be pretty damned good at co-ordinating national actions. Foreign assist? Who knows? But not impossible on their own, too.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

My money is on the Russians or Russian inspired actors.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Purely co-incidence, I'm sure -- some poor RUS national there to see the churches, no doubt ....

That said, French protesters from both ends of the political spectrum can be pretty damned good at co-ordinating national actions. Foreign assist? Who knows? But not impossible on their own, too.

Could be more than one group either acting independently or in loose coordination.

 

[KevinB]

Could be more than one group either acting independently or in loose coordination.

Russian sponsored regardless - but generally the various French anti-gov factions don't play well together - as they all have different views on how to make the world burn.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Russian sponsored regardless - but generally the various French anti-gov factions don't play well together - as they all have different views on how to make the world burn.

Potential more than zero, though, if they agree to the "how do we make it burn the brightest for a bit?" before they have to decide on who wins?

 

[Blackadder1916]

French police arrest ultra-left activist over pre-Olympics railway sabotage as new incident hits phone lines

Police have arrested a far-left activist in connection with arson attacks that hit France's high-speed rail network hours before the Olympic opening ceremony.

www.cbsnews.com

French rail network vandalism: Investigators probe far-left connections, foreign links

Those responsible for the coordinated acts of sabotage that hit the French railway network on Friday, just before the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, are still unknown. Initial police investigations…

www.france24.com

 

[KevinB]

It is interesting that a lot of the other infrastructure attacks in France have gone relatively under reported.

 

[OldSolduer]

Russian sponsored regardless - but generally the various French anti-gov factions don't play well together - as they all have different views on how to make the world burn.

Yes but they have one thing in common