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The French authorities are poised to deal with further attacks after the country’s high-speed national rail network was “paralysed” by saboteurs ahead of this evening’s opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.Patrice Vergriete, acting transport minister, said the authorities were “preparing themselves” for other potential attacks after fires broke out at three points along France’s rail network, in what he called an “outrageous criminal act”.
We had no specific alert before these planned acts of malice and sabotage. Today we are on alert, so obviously we have mobilised all security forces, as well as drones, so today we have greatly increased our vigilance.”Signals along the tracks were set on fire, and cables cut and set alight, in a series of “co-ordinated” strikes that brought train services around the capital to a standstill, sources close to the investigation said.
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