SNCF: 800,000 passengers affected by the “massive attack” on the TGV network.
A few hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games (JO), the SNCF announced that it had suffered, during the night of Thursday 25 to Friday 26 July, a "massive attack of scale to paralyze" its network of high-speed lines. The circulation of TGVs on the Atlantic, North and East lines will be "very disrupted" . These are "several simultaneous malicious acts affecting the Atlantic, North and East LGV [high-speed lines] " , the railway group indicated in a press release specifying that "deliberate fires were started to damage the] installations"
These malicious acts occurred in Croisilles (Pas-de-Calais) to block the high-speed lines in the north, in Pagny-sur-Moselle (Meurthe-et-Moselle), where the centralized command center controls traffic in the east, in Courtalain (Eure-et-Loir), which disrupts traffic on the Atlantic axis. On the other hand, an attempted sabotage in Vergigny (Yonne) was foiled, allowing high-speed trains on the south-eastern quarter to circulate.
As a result, TGV traffic on these three routes is "very disrupted" . "We are diverting some trains on the classic line, but we will have to cancel a large number of them" , stated the SNCF. The TGV South-East line, on the other hand, is "not affected" , specified the group. In the morning, one train in two was running towards the east, the north and Brittany, and one train in four towards Bordeaux.
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