Trains are again running normally in France today after engineers worked over the weekend to repair the damage caused by Friday’s coordinated attack on the network. Also working overtime are fifty specialists from the national crime unit, who have pored over the three sites where saboteurs struck.
‘Even though the fires melted hundreds of cables, at the risk of destroying precious clues, samples are currently being examined in the Gendarmerie laboratories,’ a police source said. A bullish Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, declared over the weekend that the investigation to identify the culprits was progressing well and ‘we will know fairly quickly who is responsible’.
The French far left has been in thrall to violence for centuries
The British media was quick to point the finger of blame at Russia, but from the outset French police suspected it was more likely to have been homegrown terrorists – probably the far left.
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