The French are hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games and they began with considerable excitement. A well coordinated terror attack on the commuter rail network crippled public transportation, nationwide. It happened mere hours before the opening ceremony. Instantly, everyone pointed at ultra-left radicals without considering that “whoever was behind the sabotage knew exactly where to cause maximum disruption.” That looks like inside help. Sort of like what happened with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
French fried control cables
The French populace were looking forward to a chance at watching the Olympic Games in person. France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is the one responsible for telling them all he screwed up.
He’s as popular in Paris as Kimberly Cheatle is here because he’s “the man with the task of securing the Paris Olympics.” Friday’s “sabotage attacks on the high-speed rail network” won’t look good on his resume.
Darmanin “has vowed the attackers will all be quickly arrested, but so far he has not indicated who might be to blame.” French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra promised “that the culprits were not going to spoil the party.”
SHOCKING NEWS 🚨 France's TGV high-speed train network attacked just before Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Entire World in SH0CK !!
MASSIVE chaos on the country's busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
The state-owned railway operator said arsonists… pic.twitter.com/BcHMjCaIYo
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What the terrorists did accomplish was crippling nearly the entire TGV network, “causing chaos for travelers and exposing the vulnerability of a symbol of France’s technical prowess.”
Interim Prime Minister Gabriel Attal says it’s too soon to draw conclusions. There’s one thing he’s looking into first. “Those behind the attack clearly had a good understanding of what would cause most damage.”
A number of widely separated locations were attacked and four of the five attempts were totally successful. The idea was “set fire to critical optical fibers and other cables in ducts along the rail network.” The fifth was botched but the saboteurs got away into the French countryside. For now.

Looks like the left
Suspicion, it’s been reported, “fell immediately on ultra-left radicals.” That was based on “security sources briefing French media.” We all know that means they’re clueless. “There has been no claim of responsibility from any source.”
The investigators are basing the assumption on past history. “The methods used to set fire to critical optical fibers and other cables in ducts along the rail network in the early hours of Friday were reminiscent of previous attacks by the extreme left.”
Everyone is scoffing at that claim “because the broad nature of the French attacks suggests a degree of co-ordination across four distinct regions that would not normally be associated with the extreme left.” They had serious help from someone and it’s “clear they had the Games in their sights.”
Sabotage – thought to be arson – has paralysed France's high-speed TGV rail network on the morning of the Paris 2024 opening ceremony. At least 800,000 customers expected to be impacted with service not fully resumed until Monday. @9NewsAUS 📸 Le Monde pic.twitter.com/5nmrkFwM83
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All five major TGV arteries were targeted and all but one attack successful. “The high-speed line to the south-east would have been brought to a halt too, but for an alert crew of engineers who by chance spotted a team of saboteurs in vans.”
The biggest hope authorities have of solving the crime is by “tracking down the failed saboteurs who fled the scene near Vergigny, apparently leaving their intact incendiary devices behind.”
Just like Donald Trump’s security detail, French security details were expecting exactly this sort of trouble, and missed it. They issued all sorts of bulletins ahead of time warning “of an extremely high external threat.” Friday’s incidents caused misery for hundreds of thousands of travelers.