2024-08-05 04:49:22
The fiber network The optics of several telecommunications operators suffered acts of vandalism in six regions of Francereported yesterday a police source which called the incident “sabotage,” three days after an attack that disrupted the flow of trains high speed.
Paris, which hosts the Olympic Games, was not affected, added the source, who specified that these acts occurred in the southeast, southwest, east and north of Francein the departments of Mouths of the Rhône, Aude, Oise, Hérault and Meuse.
The incident affected operators such as Free y SFR This comes after an attack involving arson disrupted the high-speed train network of the national railway company SNCF on Friday, hours before the opening of the Paris Games.
The action in the early hours of Monday – for which no claim has yet been made – also affected customers of the fixed and mobile telephone networks of the company SFR and foreign operators that use the system, such as Vodafone, British telecomamong others.
“It is vandalism,” said SFR spokesman Nicolas Chatin, one of the main telephone operators in France which stated that several sections of cabling were cut.
“You’d have to use an axe or a grinder” to destroy this network, he said.
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2024-08-05 04:49:22