The French railway company SNCF announced on Sunday that has completed repairs the damage caused by sabotage operations on its high-speed network and that this will allow the re-establishment of traffic that will not be completely normal until Monday.

In a statement, the National Railway Company (SNCF) explained that the tests it has carried out after the repairs have been conclusive, so that from This Sunday there will be an “almost normal” resumption of traffic On the Atlantic corridor, 70% of the high-speed trains (TGV) initially planned were in service on Saturday, running from Paris to Brittany and to various destinations in south-west France such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and the Basque Country.

On the second axis still affected by Friday’s attacks, the northern axis (from Paris to Lille, London, Brussels, the Netherlands and northern Germany), 75% of the usual trains will finally be running on Sunday. They will do so within normal travel times, as repairs allow trains to run on high-speed lines. and that they do not have to deviate from conventional lines, as they have done these last two days.

SNCF insisted that “from Monday morning, there will be no disruption.” On Friday morning, three signaling installations on three of the four main TGV axes in France were the target of criminal arson.coordinated, just hours before the opening of the Paris Olympic Games.

An attempt was also made on the fourth major corridor, but it was stopped when SNCF employees surprised a group of individuals who fled in a van while trying to set fire to another signalling equipment. As a result of this action, which is being investigated by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office under the coordination of the Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (SDAT), 200 of the 750 TGV trains had to be cancelled on Friday and 100,000 people were left without being able to travel.

On the authorship of the sabotage, The Paris Prosecutor’s Office is carrying out verifications on a text of demand that arrived this Saturday by email to several media outlets, signed by an unknown group calling itself “an unexpected delegation.”

In the message, the author or authors establish a clear link between the attacks on the French railway network in the early hours of Friday and the Paris Olympic Games, which they criticise as constituting, in their view, an instrument of exploitation of the population and an opportunity to implement mass surveillance devices.