On the night of Thursday to Friday, the SNCF suffered a “massive attack of scale to paralyze” its TGV network, the group told AFP. TGV traffic on the Atlantic, North and East routes will be “very disrupted”, a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
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The serious disruptions affecting the high-speed train networks of the French railway company SNCF, the Atlantic, North and East, are the result of clearly coordinated acts of “sabotage”, a source close to the case told AFP. These acts were committed in a ” concerted, obviously “.
The SNCF has “ was the victim last night of several simultaneous malicious acts affecting the LGV Atlantique, Nord and Est “, the railway group said in a statement, specifying that ” arson attacks were started to damage (its) facilities “. As a result, the circulation of TGVs on these three axes is “ very disturbed “.
“The situation should last at least the whole weekend »
“ We are diverting some trains on the classic line but we will have to cancel a large number of them. “, said the SNCF. The TGV Sud-Est line, on the other hand, is not ” not touched “, the group said.
SNCF Réseau teams “ are already on site to carry out the diagnosis and begin the repairs “, but this “ The situation should last at least the entire weekend while repairs are carried out. “, the operator said.
The attack comes just hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris, when many travelers plan to converge on the capital. A large number of vacationers are also in transit. All customers will be informed by SMS about the running of their trains “, the group told AFP. The operator advises ” all travelers to postpone their trip and not go to the station “, specifying in its press release that all tickets are exchangeable and refundable.
In Montparnasse, major delays on a number of TGV trains have been announced, particularly on the high-speed Atlantic line to Tours and Le Mans, “ due to acts of vandalism in Courtalain “, noted an AFP journalist.