Iran Press/Europe: A series of coordinated arson attacks on the train infrastructure of France's largest rail company, SNCF, caused a significant number of trains to be re-routed or cancelled on Friday morning.
The attack disrupted the transport system on the opening day of the 2024 Paris Olympics, with delays of up to two hours, if not outright cancellations, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers across the country.
At the Montparnasse train station in Paris, dozens of passengers are standing in the main hall with their eyes peeled on the information screens or their own phones and laptops.
An intelligence source told the media that French intelligence services are “fully mobilized” to find those responsible. The source added that “these methods have been used by the far-left in the past” but “there is no evidence to tie today’s actions to them.”
The coordinated sabotage took place as France mounted a massive security operation, involving tens of thousands of police and soldiers to safeguard the capital for the sporting extravaganza, sucking in security resources from across the country.
