French authorities think far-left groups could have been behind a mass sabotage of the country’s high-speed rail lines on the day of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Interior minister Gérald Darmanin on Monday said the methods identified in last week’s rail sabotage, which disrupted thousands of journeys, resembled those of far-left extremists who had carried out similar attacks on a smaller scale. He cautioned that the full picture was not yet known.
“We’ve identified a certain number of profiles of people who could have committed these acts of sabotage,” Darmanin told France 2 TV station. “It’s traditionally the way far-left groups act.”