Trains

 Massive attack on France's Rapid Rail system. A third of all trains affected,

25% of Eurostar between London and Paris cancelled.

The wires are being burnt.

                                                 

The concrete reasons for the disruptions. The CEO of the SNCF detailed the saboteurs' modus operandi at a press conference this Friday. Their actions consist of "burning cables" that can contain 50 wires. "They set fire to cable passages, in gutters where many cables run that control the motors of the points and the signals, it's optical fiber so a huge number of combined cables ," explained the group's director. "We have to remove the damaged cables (...) redo all the connections and retest everything to be sure that when we restart the trains, everything will go well. It's very meticulous work, high-level experts will be mobilized." According to Jean-Pierre Farandou, "two days" will be needed by the SNCF teams to repair the damage "cable by cable, wire by wire ." A continuous goldsmith's job for the maintenance agents, who will work 3/8. "We have a general mobilisation to ensure that this incident has the least possible consequences ," the group's director was keen to point out.

source: Liberation

As for who might be responsible, no one knows at the moment, but the Ultra-

Gauche ie far-left is suspected.