 France arrested an ultra-left activist related to the train sabotage and dozens of Extinction Rebellion henchmen-persons, so I’m moving the entire story to Page 1: War on Terror.
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[NY Post] A number of fiber optic networks have been "sabotaged" across France — just days after arson attacks paralyzed high-speed train services during the Olympics opening ceremony, according to reports.
Cables for several telecom operators were purposely cut in six areas of France earlier Monday, police told the French outlet Agence France Presse.
However, Paris has not been affected by the sabotage.
The cables in electrical cabinets belonging to operators SFR and Bouygues had been cut in southern France, and installations in the Meuse region near Luxembourg and the Oise area near Paris had been vandalized, according to the French paper Le Parisien.
The vandalism is mainly affecting fixed-line services and not mobile devices.
There has so far been no claim of responsibility for the recent attack on the country’s infrastructure.
The incident comes just three days after "coordinated" acts crippled high-speed train services on three major lines connecting Paris with Lille, Bordeaux, and Strasbourg.
A fourth attack on the Paris-Marseille line was foiled by night-shift workers.
The high-speed train disruption ruined travel for at least 250,000 passengers on Friday, including those coming from other parts of Europe, such as the UK, on the Eurostar.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said France’s intelligence services have been mobilized to find the perpetrators of the "acts of sabotage" which he described as "prepared and coordinated."
They had "a clear objective: blocking the high-speed train network" ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony, Attal said,
"Playing against the Games is playing against France, against your own camp, against your country," Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera said of the attacks. 
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