“Nighttime sabotage” affecting the fiber optic networks of several French operators, such as Free and SFRwere committed during the night from Sunday to Monday in six departments, we learned on Monday July 29 from a police source.
Paris, the heart of the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), is not affected, the same source added, specifying that the departments concerned are Bouches-du-Rhône, Aude, Oise, Hérault, Meuse and Drôme.
“Cowardly and irresponsible acts”
The resigning Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Marina Ferrari, who condemned “with the greatest firmness these cowardly and irresponsible acts”, spoke on X (ex-Twitter) of “localised consequences on access to fibre, fixed telephony and mobile telephony”.
These actions come a few days after the sabotage of several high-speed train lines which caused great chaos in the stations on Friday morning, a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. On Sunday, an activist from the far-left movement was arrested on an SNCF site in Oissel (Seine-Maritime), we learned on Monday from a police source.