2023-06-29 19:42:05
A tram line T6 was completely destroyed last night. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
The burnt train is estimated at five million euros according to Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM).
«Eleven buses were burned throughout Île-de-France, and for the first time, two trams were attacked“, was moved Valérie Pécresse this Thursday the day after the destruction of a tramway train of the T6 line, completely burned with the help of molotov cocktails in Clamart, in the Hauts-de-Seine (92) and damage to another train on the T10 line. To see the damage to it, the elected Ile-de-France went to the depot for the T10 tram line, in Châtenay-Malabry, also in Hauts-de-Seine (92).
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“We have weeks of work to do”
In Clamart, the other train requires heavy extrication work. “The train that burned will be cut and cleared today using cranes (…) But it will take time to restore the line“, she lamented, referring to “millions of euros of public service gone up in smoke» and estimating «about five million euros» the price of such an oar. “There is no more stupid act than going to burn down a piece of public service. This is unacceptable and there is no justification for it (…) This will lead to life inconveniences for many Ile-de-France residents“, she continued, very annoyed.
«We have weeks of work (…) the catenary burned, the train got stuck in the rails“Insisted Valérie Pécresse, who recalls that substitute buses have been dispatched to the site to replace this line which normally connects Châtillon-Montrouge to Viroflay. “It’s absurd, foolish and it could have been criminal“, she imagines, when no less than a dozen molotov cocktails were thrown around midnight Wednesday evening in this train where there were still travelers.
In addition to the T6 and the T10, IDFM explains that a tramway train on the T9 line was hit by mortar fire and that garbage can fires damaged the guide rail on the T5 line, in Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis (93). So many small incidents causing disruption to some of the traffic on lines T4, T5 and T6.
On a visit to the RATP headquarters, the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune insisted on bringing “a message of support” to “agents of our public services who are always on the front line“, greeting “a great performancewhere traffic could resume. RATP’s priorities are to “protect our travelers and our agents and also restart the service as soon as possible“, assured its CEO Jean Castex.
To avoid any new incident, IDFM took the decision – “at the request of the police headquarters and as a precautionary measure– to “gradually stop the surface network” of buses and trams no later than 9 p.m. Time at which “their service will be totally interrupted“, underlines the RATP, which specifies that”the metro and RER networks should run normally» and invites travelers «to make themselves available to anticipate their travels as of now». «We must protect our drivers and our travelers“, had launched a little earlier Valérie Pécresse on this subject. Several curfews have also been decreed in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine) but also in Compiègne (Oise).
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