A far-Left group has claimed responsibility for a series of arson attacks in Paris that crippled the rail network ahead of the opening ceremony of the Olympics. The Mailhas more.
Just hours before the grand procession on the River Seine on Friday night, fires were started at key facilities, bringing trains to a halt and affecting around 800,000 passengers – including athletes and spectators heading to the Games.
Preliminary evidence in the investigation show that strategic points of the network were targeted, indicating that the perpetrators had a detailed knowledge of the network, according to investigators.
France’s intelligence services and police have been scrambling to determine the perpetrators of the sabotage.
But on Saturday, several French and international media outlets received a mystery email by a far-Left collective calling itself “an unknown delegation”, which claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to Le Parisien.
The anonymous activists said in the email: “They call it a party? We see it as a celebration of nationalism, a gigantic staging of the subjugation of populations by states.”
While the email included the domain name Rise Up, which is often used by radical environmental or anarchist groups, it is unclear who exactly is behind they email and whether they were actually responsible for the arson attacks.
The methods used to launch the massive “coordinated arson attack” on rail installations across the country resemble those used by such radical groups in the past, a security source claimed on Friday. …
The Gare du Nord – the main Eurostar station in Paris – was hit by attacks on its rail network overnight from Thursday to Friday, according to a spokesman for SNCF, France’s rail operator.
This caused the cancellation of multiple services, including ones meant to be bringing sports fans from London into the French capital.
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