Multiple fibre optic networks vandalised across France

Installations belonging to Free, SFR and Bouygues were sabotaged during the night. No one has claimed responsibility.

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00:00Telecom companies in France have been targeted by acts of vandalism just days after a wave

00:06of attacks also hit the country's rail network. SFR, Bouygues and Free saw their installations

00:12vandalised, an act which left countless French people without network access.

00:16Fibre-optic carts were reported by a police source and both fixed and mobile lines were

00:20reportedly affected. No one has claimed the actions as yet and the ongoing Olympic Games

00:26appear not to have been impacted at this time.

00:33These acts of sabotage take place just three days after the coordinated malicious attacks

00:37that targeted French national rail company SNCF and severely disrupted rail traffic over the

00:42weekend. On Sunday, one person was arrested in conjunction with the attacks at an SNCF site.