Good evening. The French authorities are poised to deal with further attacks after the country’s high-speed national rail network was “paralysed” by saboteurs ahead of this evening’s opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
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France ‘preparing for more attacks’ after train sabotage
Patrice Vergriete, acting transport minister, said the authorities were “preparing themselves” for other potential attacks after fires broke out at three points along France’s rail network, in what he called an “outrageous criminal act”. Follow the story live here.
Cables were cut and set alight and signals disrupted in at least three “co-ordinated” attacks that brought train services around the capital to standstill, sources close to the investigation said. Greg Dickinson answers your questions on the travel chaos here.
