The first serious one took place on Saturday energy failure on the Cote d'Azur.
The five -hour power outage disturbed the last day Cannes Film Festival. Light and ATMs have not operated. The organizers were forced to use spare generators.
About 160,000 farms domestic was then devoid of electricity.
Nice. Fire of the power station
The next failure took place in Nice, on Saturday night to Sunday. The transformer was burning there – the prosecutor's office said.
According to the AFP agency, 45 thousand people were deprived of electricity.
The fire broke out at the power station in the Des Moulins district in the western part of Nice – the investigators donated.
“We categorically condemn the night Attrack on the electricity transformer In Nice, “wrote deputy mayor Anthony Borre on platform X, suggesting sabotage.
France. Failure series. The “perpetrators” confessed
Groups of anarchists confessed to the attack, whose statement quotes, among others French BFMTV station. The message was published on the website of the “collective of activists with ultra -Polish views”.
“On the eve of the award ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival And the evening gala we sabotized the main electrical substation supplying the Metropolitan area of ​​Cannes and cut the 225 kV line running from Nice, “wrote the perpetrators, whose purpose was to deprive, among others, airports, industrial plants and research centers.
Reports of the alleged participation of anarchists in sabotage The prosecutor's office verifies.