French High-Speed Rail Arrest Unrelated to Olympic Games Sabotage

Published on July 30, 2024

A man arrested after reportedly behaving suspiciously near a railway site is not linked to a suspected coordinated arson attack ahead of the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games, French authorities say. On July 26, France’s high-speed TGV rail network was paralyzed by vandalism and arson attacks just hours before the Olympic Games in Paris were set to open. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Monday retweeted a media story that reported that a far-left activist was arrested in connection with a sabotage attack on France’s high-speed rail network on July 28. Le Figaro said that a student of the movement of the “ultra-left” was arrested on Sunday, July 28, with “several cans of spray paint,” at a SNCF site in Oissel (Seine-Maritime), in the northern part of France....

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