Reports say cables in electrical cabinets have been cut in southern France.
Paris:
Telecommunications facilities belonging to French companies SFR and Bouygues Telecom were vandalized, newspaper Le Parisien and BFM TV reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
SFR and Bouygues did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Reports state that electrical cabinet cables were cut in the south of France and that installations in the Meuse region, near Luxembourg, and the Oise area, near Paris, were vandalized, mainly affecting fixed-line services.
Saboteurs targeted France’s high-speed rail network on Friday with pre-dawn attacks on substations and signal cables, causing travel chaos hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said a far-left extremist was arrested on Sunday in connection with the case.
Traffic only returned to normal on Monday morning, but only after around 800,000 people faced disruption, including 100,000 people whose trains had to be canceled immediately.
Reports by Le Parisien and BFM TV did not state whether there was any link between the vandalism at telecommunications facilities and previous sabotage on the rail network.
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