{"id":34120,"date":"2024-07-29T07:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/vandalism-hits-communication-lines-in-france-during-paris-olympics\/29\/07\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:16:36","slug":"vandalism-hits-communication-lines-in-france-during-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/vandalism-hits-communication-lines-in-france-during-paris-olympics\/29\/07\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism Hits Communication Lines in France During Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 420px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The French government says multiple telecommunications lines have been hit by acts of vandalism, affecting fiber lines and fixed and mobile phone lines as cities around France are hosting events for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-reviews\/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-critics-notebook-1235959548\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2024 Paris Olympics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2024 Paris Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the impact is unclear, as is whether it has affected any Olympic activities. The vandalism came after arson attacks hit train networks\u00a0around France on Friday, hours before the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/olympics-2024-opening-ceremony-tv-ratings-1235960009\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Olympics opening ceremony;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Olympics opening ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marina Ferrari, secretary of state in charge of digital affairs, posted on X that damage in several regions overnight Sunday to Monday affected telecommunications operators. She said that led to localized impact on access to fiber lines and fixed and mobile telephone lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/peacock-nbcuniversal-paris-olympics-1235956869\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paris 2024 Olympics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paris 2024 Olympics<\/a> organizers would not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p>A French police official said at least six of France\u2019s administrative departments were affected, which include the region around the Mediterranean city of Marseille, hosting\u00a0Olympic soccer\u00a0and\u00a0sailing competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom operators Bouygues and Free confirmed their services were affected. French media reports said lines operated by provider SFR also were hit. The parent company of Free said its teams are mobilized to restore services.<\/p>\n<p>A national investigation is underway into last week\u2019s train sabotage, which disrupted travel for nearly a million passengers in France as well as people in London and in other neighboring countries. Train traffic had largely resumed by Monday.<\/p>\n<p>French media reported that an extreme-left activist was arrested at a rail facility on Sunday in the Seine-Maritime region of western France. But the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said it was unconnected to what happened Friday and that no one has been arrested so far in the national investigation into the arson attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/vandalism-hits-communication-lines-france-104846049.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French government says multiple telecommunications lines have been hit by acts of vandalism, affecting fiber lines and fixed and mobile phone<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/vandalism-hits-communication-lines-in-france-during-paris-olympics\/29\/07\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}