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On 26 July 2024, the day of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of arson attacks damaged the LGV Atlantique, Nord, and Est lines of the French high-speed railway system. [3] International and domestic rail services were widely disrupted, [4] with around 800,000 passengers affected. [5]
Arsonists attacked France's high-speed rail network early Friday, setting fires that paralyzed train travel to Paris for some 800,000 people across Europe, including athletes heading to the ...
According to SNCF a massive attack on a large scale hit the TGV network and many routes will have to be cancelled. SNCF urged passengers to postpone their trips and stay away from train stations.
It was “a premeditated, calculated, coordinated attack” that indicates “a desire to seriously harm” the French people, the CEO of the national railway company SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou, said. “The places were especially chosen to have the most serious impact, since each fire cut off two lines,” Farandou said.
France’s high-speed train lines were targeted by multiple “malicious” acts including arson on Friday, in what has been described as “an attack on France” and “coordinated sabotage ...
The Paris police prefecture “concentrated its personnel” in train stations after the attack, Paris Police Chief Laurent Nuñez told France Info television. In the capital, 35,000 police officers are being deployed each day for the Olympics, with a peak of 45,000 for the opening ceremony.
The French national rail company SNCF said that areas affecting rail track intersections were targeted to double the impact. “For one fire, two destinations were hit,” the company's CEO, Jean-Pierre Farandou. It was “a premeditated, calculated, coordinated attack" that indicates "a desire to seriously harm” the French people, Farandou said.
An off-duty French train driver who also helped subdue the gunman; [39] his name has not been released. Norman, Sadler, Skarlatos, and Stone were made Knights of the Legion of Honour ( chevaliers de la Légion d'honneur ) on 24 August by French president François Hollande .