Arson attacks have scrambled France's high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers, after what officials called premeditated acts of "sabotage" just hours before the Paris Olympics opened. French rail operator SNCF says 800,000 people will be affected.
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00:00We estimate that about 800,000 clients will be concerned, so it's big, so of course it's
00:27a very important client impact. On the agents, of course, on the network side, we re-mobilized
00:33everyone, so we had prepared, there were a lot of constraints for the Olympic Games,
00:37on that side we had mobilized staff. Honestly, we thought it would be more to intervene
00:41on the lines concerned by the Olympic Games and then for normal steps, I was going to
00:44say. We didn't think we would need to mobilize, but we're going to do it, of course.