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   Voice of America (voanews@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 23:49:31 JST Voice of America

   'Sabotage' hits French trains hours before Olympics

   https://www.voanews.com/a/french-train-lines-hit-by-malicious-acts-ahead-of-olympics-rail-company-says/7713748.html

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 23:49:31 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     The largest peacetime deployment in #France, 75,000 troops, and 44,000 barriers could not keep the 2024 #SummerOlympics safe:
     800,000 would-be #SNCF travelers will he affected by an arson attack on the railwaynet's security infrastructure:

     "SNCF chief executive Jean-Pierre Farandou said that the attackers had started fires in "conduits carrying multiple [fiber-optic] cables" that...
     1) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5j8gk20r1o

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 23:50:49 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     ...carry "safety information for drivers" or control the motors for points.

     "There's a huge number of bundled cables. We have to repair them one by one. It's a manual operation" requiring "hundreds of workers," he added." 1)

     It is time to adjust the laws:
     anyone attacking public infrastructure should be made liable for damages for its users. Simplified class-action suits should me set up...on top of criminal charges (I'd argue...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 23:52:29 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     ...for a 5-year minimum sentence. Oh, and, yes, that would probably ruin the perpetrators for life.)

     The transformation towards a green, net-zero emissions, circular economy is completely dependent on the public trusting the reliability of these services, attacks like this damage this indispensable trust. As the #ClimateCrisis threatens the livelihood of humanity, this kind of attack threatens its future well, being. Therefore,...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 23:53:29 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     ...very harsh sentences are of the essence.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 00:22:58 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     #SNCF #SabotageOlympics

     PS :

     French trains are already running again in all diections, with delays or some cancellations. The southern routes were bot affected:

     https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/live/2024/07/26/en-direct-attaque-massive-contre-la-sncf-reprise-partielle-et-progressive-du-trafic-un-train-sur-trois-circule-sur-la-ligne-atlantique_6258634_3224.html