A major sabotage operation disrupted France's high-speed TGV train network just before the summer rush and the 2024 Paris Olympics. Unknown attackers cut and set fire to crucial fiber optic cables, causing widespread chaos and delays. An investigation is underway, with over fifty gendarmes on the case, but no group has claimed responsibility yet. The attack has left travelers frustrated and railway workers racing to repair the damage, highlighting a mysterious and well-coordinated threat to national infrastructure.

In what has been called "an attack on France" and "coordinated sabotage," several "malicious" acts, including fire, targeted France's high-speed train lines on Friday in an attempt to impede traffic ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

"A large number of trains were diverted or canceled," the French state railway corporation SNCF stated in a post on X, requesting "all travelers who can to postpone their trip and not go to the station." Although there was ...