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Saboteurs struck France's TGV high-speed train network in a series of pre-dawn attacks across the country, causing travel chaos and exposing security gaps ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony later on Friday.

 

The TGV high-speed rail attacks left hundreds of thousands of people stranded at stations.

 

Eurostar's high-speed services linking London and Paris were forced onto slower lines while Germany's Deutsche Bahn warned of disruption to long-distance services.

 

The SNCF urged all travelers to postpone their journeys. Repairs were underway but traffic would be severely disrupted until at least the end of the weekend.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vandals-target-frances-high-speed-rail-network-olympics-get-underway-2024-07-26/

 

Well damn. 

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It feels like there's always some chaos happening in Paris

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Vive La France!

 

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Just why... 

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Most likely extremist leftists, they recently carried out a very similar attack on the train system in Germany,  on the Tesla factory there, etc. Plus, pissing of hundreds of thousands of people just minding their own business at once is their MO. What they are hoping to achieve by shutting down the most environmentally friendly method of mass transport however is a harder question to answer 

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Are you happy to be in Paris?

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8 minutes ago, Bosque said:

Most likely extremist leftists, they recently carried out a very similar attack on the train system in Germany,  on the Tesla factory there, etc. Plus, pissing of hundreds of thousands of people just minding their own business at once is their MO. What they are hoping to achieve by shutting down the most environmentally friendly method of mass transport however is a harder question to answer 

You're insane. 

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16 minutes ago, Bosque said:

Most likely extremist leftists, they recently carried out a very similar attack on the train system in Germany,  on the Tesla factory there, etc. Plus, pissing of hundreds of thousands of people just minding their own business at once is their MO. What they are hoping to achieve by shutting down the most environmentally friendly method of mass transport however is a harder question to answer 

Yes grandma, it's all the leftist's fault. Now let's get you back to bed.

 

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Why do they have to be so problematic every single time? 

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30 minutes ago, Pheromosa said:

Are you happy to be in Paris?

no :suburban:

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38 minutes ago, Bosque said:

Most likely extremist leftists, they recently carried out a very similar attack on the train system in Germany,  on the Tesla factory there, etc. Plus, pissing of hundreds of thousands of people just minding their own business at once is their MO. What they are hoping to achieve by shutting down the most environmentally friendly method of mass transport however is a harder question to answer 

Oh Dephira....

 

 

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46 minutes ago, Bosque said:

Most likely extremist leftists, they recently carried out a very similar attack on the train system in Germany,  on the Tesla factory there, etc. Plus, pissing of hundreds of thousands of people just minding their own business at once is their MO. What they are hoping to achieve by shutting down the most environmentally friendly method of mass transport however is a harder question to answer 

 

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1 hour ago, Bosque said:

Most likely extremist leftists, they recently carried out a very similar attack on the train system in Germany,  on the Tesla factory there, etc. Plus, pissing of hundreds of thousands of people just minding their own business at once is their MO. What they are hoping to achieve by shutting down the most environmentally friendly method of mass transport however is a harder question to answer 

Girl....take off the Gaga avi

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Russia is cyber-beating all of our a**es.:bibliahh:

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2 hours ago, Bosque said:

Most likely extremist leftists, they recently carried out a very similar attack on the train system in Germany,  on the Tesla factory there, etc. Plus, pissing of hundreds of thousands of people just minding their own business at once is their MO. What they are hoping to achieve by shutting down the most environmentally friendly method of mass transport however is a harder question to answer 

How's the left's fault? :suburban:

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On 7/26/2024 at 3:12 PM, Blade Runner said:

You're insane. 

 

On 7/26/2024 at 3:20 PM, Subomie said:

Yes grandma, it's all the leftist's fault. Now let's get you back to bed.

 

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On 7/26/2024 at 3:43 PM, State of Grace. said:

Oh Dephira....

 

 

 

On 7/26/2024 at 3:50 PM, Miracle Whip said:

 

 

On 7/26/2024 at 4:36 PM, Smarticle said:

Girl....take off the Gaga avi

 

On 7/26/2024 at 5:52 PM, Princess Aurora said:

How's the left's fault? :suburban:

Apologies accepted :heart: I love when people are so, so wrong, despite being so, so loud

 

 

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Far-left extremists were likely behind last week's arson attacks on France's high-speed train network, heavily disrupting travel just hours before the Olympic Games opening ceremony, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Monday. 

 

 

Authorities in France are leaning toward the likelihood that far-left activists were responsible for a sabotage of the country's long-distance rail network on Friday.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that the saboteurs' methods bore the hallmarks of far-left extremists.

"We have identified the profiles of several people," Darmanin told France 2 TV

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"This is the traditional type of action of the ultra left," he added.

 

Darmanin also confirmed that authorities arrested 45 members of the Extinction Rebellion direct action environmental group.

https://www.dw.com/en/french-minister-says-rail-sabotage-has-hallmarks-of-far-left/a-69794459

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6 minutes ago, Bosque said:

 

 

 

 

 

Apologies accepted :heart: I love when people are so, so wrong, despite being so, so loud

 

 

https://www.dw.com/en/french-minister-says-rail-sabotage-has-hallmarks-of-far-left/a-69794459

yeah, but that's far-left not the left. It's different lol

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2 minutes ago, Princess Aurora said:

yeah, but that's far-left not the left. It's different lol

I literally said "extremist leftists"

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2 minutes ago, Bosque said:

I literally said "extremist leftists"

Oh okay, I missed out that part. I thought you meant the left as a political party and I was like um what?:deadbanana2:

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44 minutes ago, Bosque said:

Apologies accepted :heart: I love when people are so, so wrong, despite being so, so loud

 

 

https://www.dw.com/en/french-minister-says-rail-sabotage-has-hallmarks-of-far-left/a-69794459

And I still stand by what I said about taking off the Gaga avi :heart:

 

Anyways it says they arrested people from that Environmental group - do they even align left? Or is it like Just Stop Oil where they just pull stunts that no one really agrees with

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15 minutes ago, Miracle Whip said:

F**k you!

 

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Thank you, big compliment coming from a self-proclaimed "Marxist-Leninist"

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4 hours ago, Bosque said:

Thank you, big compliment coming from a self-proclaimed "Marxist-Leninist"

Face the wall.

 

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