Unruly individuals attacked France's rapid TGV network with a sequence of coordinated incidents that significantly impacted some of the nation's most heavily used rail routes just before the commencement ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
The national railway enterprise announced that individuals engaged in deliberate destruction had targeted infrastructure along lines from Paris to France's western, northern, and eastern regions, resulting in significant disruptions over the weekend.
In a public statement, the SNCF reported: "Last night, several acts of vandalism occurred on our Atlantic, Northern, and Eastern high-speed rail lines. The installations were intentionally set ablaze."
The sports minister, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, strongly denounced these destructive actions.
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