Coordinated sabotage acts have continued in France.
Whereas there are still question marks about the sabotage of France’s high-speed rail grid on Friday, July 26, another coordinated attack during overnight July 28-29 hit the fiber optic cables of several French Internet services, including Free and SFR, which were affected. Six departments, in the southwest, east and north of the country were affected by these “acts of sabotage”—but not the capital, Paris, where the Olympic Games are currently taking place. The authors of these attacks are still unknown.
In the rail grid affair, however, the media have now been informed that a “left-wing extremist” was arrested on Sunday, July 28. The question is, though: Is it that easy for left-wing extremists to gather info on the three weak spots of the French railway grid and take that action that paralyzed most of the national high-speed train service on July 26 and some of the grid until July 29? And—ooh-la-la!!—did “bad luck” cause 800,000 French citizens to get stuck at the start of the summer vacation, because their trains could not run?
Meanwhile, was it only coincidence that, on the day of train sabotage in France, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) published an update to its July 2023 report, warning against acts of sabotage in the course of the “Russian war of aggression,” and, in particular, of possible attacks on the power supply, telecommunications and logistics. “Without the functioning of these infrastructure areas, all other structures will collapse as a result,” the 2023 memo had already said, charging “foreign intelligence services” with planning and carrying out this sabotage.
