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Politics taints Paris Olympics with sabotage and misinformation

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France’s intelligence services are extending their hunt for the perpetrators of the sabotage attacks.

France’s intelligence services are extending their hunt for the perpetrators of the high-speed rail sabotage attacks.

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Coordinated acts of sabotage that crippled France’s high-speed railway network just as the Olympic Games were set to begin on July 26 appear to have been

the work of radical leftists

, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on July 29.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attacks, which

resulted in travel chaos

hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympics. No arrests have been made so far.

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