Rail chaos continues to mar Olympic countdown
Delays and cancellations affecting thousands of travelers continue to dog the countdown to the Olympic ceremony.
LONG: Delays and cancellations affecting thousands of travelers continue to dog the countdown to the Olympic ceremony. 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.
#paris2024 #olympics #ceremony #france
LONG: Delays and cancellations affecting thousands of travelers continue to dog the countdown to the Olympic ceremony. 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.
#paris2024 #olympics #ceremony #france
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00:00Chaos and confusion here at Montparnasse train station. Thousands of people left without a
00:05train. Over the next few days over a million people are set to be affected and of course
00:10this couldn't come at a worse time. The day of the Paris opening ceremony for the Olympics and
00:19it's also a day when many Parisians traditionally get away on holiday. So you can see there's a lot
00:24of angry, confused and anxious people worried about whether they can get home, get on their
00:31way, get to their destinations. Now what we do know is the extent of the damage and how it was
00:36caused. What we don't know is who was behind these attacks. Speculation has already begun. Of course
00:42it's happened on the day of the Olympic ceremony when Paris 2024 is about to get underway. But
00:50who's done this and what was their motivation? That we don't know.