00:00So we, on the Atlantic Coast, we operate 250 trains a day.
00:30We had four trains with athletes and two of them were able to operate.
00:37One was cancelled and one is under process to be operated.
00:42So the impact on the opening ceremony is very, very few.
00:59The fact is just that, because of this issue, we are not able to run the full schedule.
01:12And now we have one train over three able to operate on the Atlantic Coast.
01:18All the trains are operating normally but with roughly a one to two hour delay on the
01:24east of France.
01:26And for the north of France, some trains were cancelled, but roughly the other trains are
01:33operating with one hour delay.
01:41So we have 30,000 kilometres of railway in France, so it's a very large network.
01:50It's absolutely impossible to check all the points.
01:53What we are doing currently is some specific tour organised by experts on very targeted areas.
02:06And we have been helped also with 50 drones which have been provided to us to control
02:18the most that we can those specific areas.
02:22So we are reinforcing our system to be able to cope with the situation.
02:29Today what we can say is that there is no safety issue for operating trains and anyway
02:35we will not operate one train if there is one risk.
02:39So that's our main concern, to make sure that we travel safely on the French network.
02:52No, there is an investigation ongoing with the French authority.
03:02All what we know is just that it was definitely targeted on SNCF and on the high speed train network.
03:09The fact is that it wasn't, at this point I cannot say that it was dangerous, but it
03:15was really impactful.
03:17So what we have now to make sure is that we can inform all the passengers that we will
03:23take care of them.
03:25That's currently what the crew are doing today and we are trying to help them to reschedule
03:31their trip, probably tomorrow or at least on Monday.
03:48For us, it's really a pity.
03:56It's difficult to accept also just because obviously we were working for months to make
04:02sure that everything was going to happen properly and today it's hard to accept.
04:17It's 7 o'clock tonight.
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