The Paris Olympics were getting off to a rougher than hoped-for start Friday, with suspected acts of sabotage targeting France's flagship high-speed rail network and cloudy skies with light drizzle over the French capital ahead of its sprawling, ambitious opening ceremony.
On a day of utmost importance for France and its capital, with dozens of heads of state and government in town for the Olympic opening and a global audience of over 1 billion expected to tune in, authorities were scrambling to deal with widespread rail disruptions caused by what they described as coordinated overnight sabotage of high-speed train lines.
On a day of utmost importance for France and its capital, with dozens of heads of state and government in town for the Olympic opening and a global audience of over 1 billion expected to tune in, authorities were scrambling to deal with widespread rail disruptions caused by what they described as coordinated overnight sabotage of high-speed train lines.
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00:00It's probably a large-scale sabotage with some malicious acts probably coordinating.
00:10We're still in the process of analyzing all the impacts, assessing what we're going to
00:17implement as solutions because it's going to have impacts also over the weekend and
00:22we want this not to jeopardize the quality of the experience for the athletes and for
00:27the spectators.
00:34The police force are looking after all the people who have committed this assault against
00:41the French network, so it's ongoing.
00:48Paris is a very safe place, it's going to be tonight a very safe place because we have
00:54anticipated everything because we really have mobilized a huge number, almost 50,000
01:01security forces including the military and the private security officers.
01:24It's going to be a very safe place, it's going to be a very safe place because we have
01:31anticipated everything because we really have mobilized a huge number, almost 50,000 security
01:38forces including the military and the private security officers including the private security
01:43officers.
01:44It's going to be a very safe place, it's going to be a very safe place because we have