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just hours before the opening ceremony
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there was chaos on the rail network in
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and around Paris after a series of Acts
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of deliberate sabotage signal boxes and
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fiber optic cables on the high-speed
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rail system were vandalized causing
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fires and affecting around 800,000
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people including on urar where one in
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four Services between London and Paris
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were cancelled until Monday four attacks
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in what the French government called
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coordinated malicious acts targeted
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links to the east north and west of
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Paris taking out huge SES of the network
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a fifth attack to the southeast was
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foiled the French prime minister Gabriel
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atal has said that police and
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intelligence services are working hard
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to find and punish those responsible our
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Paris correspondent Andrew Harding
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reports French Engineers gathered beside
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Railways this is north of Paris on the
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highspeed line heading to
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London the French sister relies on these
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sensitive Fiber Optic Cables something
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the attackers clearly understood when
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they set fire to three separate sites in
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attack the impact immediately felt AC
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cross northern France passengers forced
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to abandon this train stuck on the
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Paris and in the capital itself
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confusion at the guno the busiest
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railway station in Europe Paris is
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already on high alert amid concerns
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about potential Russian cyber attacks
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and actions by violent islamist groups
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the French prime minister noted today's
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sabotage was no amateur
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effort what we can see is that this
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operation was planned and coordinated
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that sensitive targets were chosen which
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shows some knowledge of the real Network
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and where to strike it
