cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15194265
From BBC:
- A series of fires has hit French high-speed rail lines, hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
- Rail company SNCF says it’s a “massive attack aimed at paralysing the network”; France’s transport minister condemns the “co-ordinated malicious acts”
- Some 800,000 customers will be affected with disruption expected all weekend, the rail firm says
- Eurostar tells customers to postpone trips if they can, as it faces ongoing disruption
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Has anyone claimed credit for it yet? And is this actually related to the Olympics? Or is just the media saying it is?
Nobody so far but the media has already decided it was Russia and Iran.
It was coordinated over several distant places, and it knew what, where, when, and how to strike (suggesting an inside job), so the timing with the Olympics wasn’t a coincidence, especially with the heavy reliance and messaging on transports.
No one has made any claim, but the government is saying it’s the same methods from the fAr LeFt because of the required knowledge.
Not that I was involved or whatever. But how can someone say they had a method when basically it was just a group of dickheads grabbing a map and saying go here or here and here then lighting the place up? Im from America usually something like this is way more convuleted.
Not a bunch of dickheads grabbing a random map, the attacks were on specific instruments that you have to know where they are, how to access them, and what to do with them (okay I guess “toss a burning rag in it” is enough for that one). And that was in towns / places that were across half of the country or something (I think there were attacks West of Paris, then halfway to the North, and one halfway to the South that was thwarted). So likely an inside job / from someone who has worked on those things before. Obviously the actual people who did it could be any random paid homeless guy, but the map was provided by someone who is or has worked on that system, that’s the point.
I don’t live in France but that is pretty damn scary.