After several malicious acts carried out during the night from Thursday to Friday on several TGV linesTraffic was severely disrupted throughout France, canceled – should resume this weekend. In total, more than 800,000 travelers are affected, according to SNCF. Some of them were supposed to go this Thursday night opening ceremony of Olympic Games in Paris.
Economist Christophe Lepetit had planned to watch the ceremony in Paris with his wife. He could not reach the capital. He expressed his anger to Le Parisien: “The Olympic family was planning a weekend with two little girls (…) who dreamed of this moment for eighteen months. Everything is destroyed overnight. »
Horacio also had to go to Paris. Stranded in Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) this Thursday, he wants tickets for the opening ceremony for “those who choose the greenest means of transport” to be refunded, while his train “will definitely not be on time”. event.
The same observation in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), Made by Ouest-France, that all trains to Paris were canceled until 5 p.m. Japanese Shat Azuno who came to Nanta to watch the Japan-Spain match Found stuck in Loire-Atlantique Although he has a place for the ceremony, he tells our colleagues. Two Finns, Josue and Petra, were supposed to attend the ceremony, but also take part in a beach volleyball game this Saturday. They still haven’t found a way to get there on time: “If we take the bus, it would take nine hours. It’s too long! We will miss the ceremony,” they complained to the newspaper.
As a result of the cancellation of these trains, tickets for the opening ceremony have been put on sale again. On social networks, some appeal to those who cannot travel Like Alexis in X : “I apologize to everyone affected by the train problem. If you still want to sell your tickets to the opening ceremony, I’m interested! »
This Friday morning, the Paris public prosecutor’s office, as the national jurisdiction for the fight against organized crime (Junalco), announced that it had opened investigations into “all intentional damage to SNCF sites”. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau noted that the investigation is particularly open to damage to property that could harm the nation’s fundamental interests and attempts to cause harm by dangerous means by an organized gang. The anti-terror sub-department (Sdat) is responsible for the coordination of investigations.