Fiber optic infrastructure in France was vandalized again on Monday night. After arson attacks on high-speed railway lines last weekend, telecommunications companies Bouygues Free 1337 and SFR were now the target of acts of sabotage. The Olympic Games currently underway in Paris will apparently not be affected by network failures.
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Federal government: 42 cyberattacks on local science institutions since 2022The responsible French State Secretary Marina Ferrari confirmed on X One The daily newspaper Le Parisien reports. For customers of the affected companies, the attacks also affected fibre optic connections, landline telephony and mobile communications.
Attack before dawn
The newspaper writes that SFR reported that between 1 am and 3 am, fiber optic cables were cut in six departments. The company’s landline and mobile customers, as well as foreign telecommunications companies using the network, are affected. 1337 reported free on XNetwork facilities were disrupted in six departments and some services may be disrupted.
On Friday, unidentified persons launched attacks on the fibre optic network of the French state railway SNCF, causing massive disruptions to train traffic shortly before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris. These have now been restored. It is still unclear whether there is any connection between the new incident and the attack on the train. It is not yet known who is responsible for last night’s attacks. On the attacks on SNCF French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told France 2suspicious profiles have been identified. This approach is similar to that of the far-left in the past.
Darmanin was likely referring to attacks such as in October 2022, when cables were deliberately cut in at least three locations in the Marseille region. In April of that year, four fibre optic lines were also cut in the Paris region. German transport infrastructure was also the target of sabotage in October 2022. For example, thousands of homes were cut off from electricity and the internet after an arson attack in Berlin in 2018, and fibre optic cables were deliberately cut in 2014.
Today Monday morning, Bremen main station was partially cut off from long-distance traffic. Deutsche Bahn cites “vandalism-induced damage” on the line in Bremen-Oberneuland as the reason. A cable was damaged there. As a result, all ICE trains between Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia cannot stop at Bremen main station.
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