Fires on French railway tracks have delayed journeys for 800,000 travelers in what the transport minister described as “coordinated attacks of malicious intent.”

A co-ordinated arson attack on the French rail system is turning the first weekend of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris into a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of travelers.

French rail company SNCF announced on Friday its high-speed train system had been hit by “deliberate arson attacks to damage [its] facilities” causing delays and cancellations which are expected to last all weekend.

The disruptions are affecting trains heading East, North and West of Paris, and travelers have been asked to postpone their plans.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    Conservatives talk about defunding the BBC in the UK too. I wish they’d just allow people from other countries to give them money instead.

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      Defunding public media is not about the money the government spends on it. It’s about eliminating journalism that is not accountable to corporate power and money. The control the wealthy already exert over publicly funded media is never enough, people with the kind of money where control of the media is a possibility want to be able to fire a reporter who pisses them off personally.

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        It’s crazy how it really is always projection, isn’t it? Their primary argument against public media is invoking the boogeyman of government censorship and/or propaganda (but that doesn’t really happen unless all the country’s media is controlled by the government and that’s not what’s happening with PBS/BBC/etc.), when it’s really that they’re butthurt that their own censorship and propaganda is being resisted.

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          PBS and NPR are not owned by the government, they are independent and the majority of their income comes from outside the federal government, only a minority comes from there.

          Those who are owned by the government are USAGM, which owns several media outlets, but their target audiences are foreign.