One of the busiest train stations in Paris suffered a total traffic shutdown on Tuesday after vandals triggered a major signal malfunction by setting cables on fire.
PARIS, France –
A fire broke out at a signals point at around 3:00 am ahead of the morning rush in what was first thought to be an accident, but subsequently turned out to be arson, it said.There was no immediate indication over who the perpetrators were or what their intention was in targeting a small but crucial piece of infrastructure.
“It’s an act of deliberate vandalism,” Anne-Marie Palmier, head of SNCF’s Paris region network, told reporters at the station.The fire was discovered near the regional station of Vaires, east of Paris, where 48 cables were damaged after their protective casing was forced open, she said.The cables’ function was to transmit data to signalling posts. “Safety conditions can no longer be guaranteed,” she said.
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