Olympic Sabotage Continues: Someone Cut French Phone Lines Overnight

Five telecom stations successful France were deed connected Sunday nighttime successful an onslaught that unopen down immoderate services. French authorities said the attacks looked similar sabotage.

“It was an cognition that was prepared,” the wide manager of the French Telecoms Federation, Romain Bonefant, told Reuters. “If it wasn’t radical who enactment for us, it was radical who had information.”

French regulators said the cuts lone affected 11,000 people.

“Under my supervision, the Center for Defense Electronic Communications cooperates with operators until communications and services are afloat restored,” Marina Ferrari, France’s curate for integer modulation and telecommunications, said connected X. “I condemn successful the strongest presumption these cowardly and irresponsible acts. Thank you to the teams mobilized this greeting to transportation retired repairs and reconstruct damaged sites to service.”

The onslaught happened during the Olympics and followed a akin onslaught connected France’s high-speed obstruction strategy that occurred up of the opening ceremony. In that attack, idiosyncratic acceptable occurrence to 3 electrical and awesome boxes that run assorted bits of the country’s high-speed obstruction network. Early reports indicated that French authorities had disrupted additional, similar, attacks.

It’s not wide if the attacks connected the railway enactment and the telephone systems are connected, but French instrumentality enforcement has declined to remark either way. But some attacks are being handled by France’s organized transgression bureau and anti-terrorist task force.

Law enforcement mightiness not accidental who it thinks is down the attacks, but politicians don’t person the aforesaid problem.

“We person identified profiles of respective people,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said successful an interrogation connected France 2. “It’s traditionally the mode far-left groups act.”

While quality broke of the telecommunications attacks, French instrumentality enforcement announced it had detained a suspect connected to the bid sabotage. According to the AFP, the antheral had pliers, keys to obstruction equipment, and far-left governmental literature