French Leader Says Rail Attacks Had Clear Objective: Blocking Trains Before the Olympics

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Outgoing French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said that sabotage and arson that hit key parts of France’s high speed rail network on the eve of the Olympics had “a clear objective: blocking the high speed train network.”

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00:00This night, an act of targeted and coordinated sabotage hit the SNCF network, and in particular

00:15the east, north and west axes, with a clear objective, to block the TGV network.

00:25The consequences are massive.

00:27Hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens are stuck, hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens

00:36who only hope for one thing, to be able to go on holiday, to be with their families,

00:42for some to attend the Olympic Games.

00:46The investigation begins, and I call on everyone to be careful.

00:51What we know, what we see, is that this operation was prepared, coordinated,

00:59that nerve points were targeted, which shows a form of network knowledge to know where to strike.

01:09I can't tell you more about the authors, the motivations.

01:14What I see, however, is the impact, the impact that is massive for our fellow citizens.

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