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French police probe multiple cuts of major Internet cables

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25 pointsthrow0101c12 comments

Were these simultaneous, or were they spaced 15 mins apart?

If the latter, then it's someone going round the city grabbing all the valuable copper.

And tomorrow they'll show up at a junkyard in Austria and leave disappointed because fiber isn't made of copper, but to the not-so-smart thief, that isn't obvious.

The operators said the cuts were similar to an earlier case where the cables were just cut through.

And at current prices, you'd need a ton of copper to justify a drive from France to Austria :-)

I read yesterday about some similar cases in Sweden and sabotage of train infrastructure in northern Germany. I default to the obvious culprit: Russia. Am I wrong, and if yes, how?

Specifically on cable attacks, it could be simply due to 5G hysteria though, especially that it already happened multiple times: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/france-paris-internet-cable-... (Apr. 2022), https://reporterre.net/Exclusif-la-carte-des-sabotages-des-a... (Dec. 2021, before the Russia-Ukraine war). I'm not clearing Russian agents or pro-Russian sympathies cutting off the cables (maybe the 5G hysteria is the cover), but this is a plausible explanation that makes sense.

> I default to the obvious culprit: Russia. Am I wrong, and if yes, how?

You forgot Iran, the foreigners, China, Palau, coloured people. Everyone can be a terrorist. Just be alert /s

Why would they go after domestic connections and some intermediate cables instead of the big subsea cables?

Could be China or UAE

Or Papua New Guinea??

Nazis... it must have been nazis.

Sasquaches, it's sasquaches

I live in Bourgogne (FR) and indeed, we lost internet and phone service for ~1hour last night at 21h00 CEST Service provider is Free.

Free your mind! Vive la CLODO!

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