US EditionCannes Film Festival Perseveres Through Power Outage Caused by Suspected Sabotage
- A large-scale blackout affected southeastern France on Saturday, disrupting activities in Cannes during the final day of its 78th film festival.
- The power outage was triggered by a blaze that broke out overnight at a substation near Cannes, combined with damage to a high-voltage line; authorities are investigating the possibility that the fire was deliberately set.
- Around 160,000 households lost power, traffic lights and train services were affected, and some festival screenings paused briefly.
- Power restored around 3 p.m. Local time, allowing the Palais des Festivals to function via backup generators, so the closing ceremony and awards proceeded as planned.
- Officials condemned the damage as a serious act and vowed to mobilize resources to identify and prosecute the perpetrators, while festival events continued without interruption.
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New Sabotage of the Electricity Network in the French Riviera: Nice in the Sights After Cannes
Yesterday Cannes, today Nice and the French Riviera remains in the dark and with enormous doubts about safety. All because of a new, apparent sabotage to an electrical plant in the south-east of France, after those that Saturday put in danger the closure of the Cannes Festival. This time it happened not far away: in the night between Saturday and Sunday in Nice a fire at an electrical control unit, called \"dolooso" by the mayor of the city, Chr…
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