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Transportation to the French capital has been seriously disrupted at the start of the Paris Olympics by sabotage attacks on the high-speed rail system in France.
A series of fires caused the disruptions early in the morning local time, hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Several high-speed TGV lines have been hit to the west, north and east of the capital and Eurostar has also warned customers of longer journey times and cancellations, wrote BBC.
Nobody has claimed responsibility and Mr Attal said that security forces were searching for those responsible. The public prosecutor's office is also investigating.
"Early this morning, acts of sabotage were carried out in a prepared and coordinated manner on SNCF installations," Mr Attal wrote on social media.
SNCF earlier described the fires as a "massive attack" involving "malicious acts". It said it was fixing the cables damaged in the attacks manually "one by one".
"A French source told CDM, the SNCF is putting a monster IRON DOME on the story, impossible to get info, they are kicking out the journalists of the gares station, this is a monster brothel, it will take 48 h before everything will be repiared. The lags are massive, the amount of people blocked in the gares is just out of control.
"2h delay minimum, with redirection to regional train. 800 000 people blocked in the gare stations."
While admitting the 'extreme left' was the likely culprit, the BBC also couldn't help but to add Russia to the mix, although there is no link discovered to Russian Federation security services.
Russia is banned from the Olympics, although a number of the country's athletes are competing as neutrals, wrote BBC.
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