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Following attacks on rail networks and telecommunications facilities in France during the Olympic Games

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Telecommunications equipment belonging to the French companies SFR and Bouygues Telecom was vandalised, the newspaper Le Parisien and BFM TV reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.

SFR and Bouygues did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

According to reports, cables in switchboards were severed in southern France and installations were destroyed in the Meuse region near Luxembourg and in the Oise department near Paris, with fixed-line services being particularly affected.

Saboteurs targeted France’s high-speed rail network at dawn on Friday, attacking signal substations and cables, causing traffic chaos just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said a left-wing extremist was arrested on Sunday in connection with the case.

Traffic only returned to normal on Monday morning, but only after around 800,000 people had to contend with disruptions, including 100,000 people whose trains had to be cancelled completely.

The reports by Le Parisien and BFM TV did not indicate whether there was a connection between the vandalism of the telecommunications equipment and the previous acts of sabotage on the railway network.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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