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NY Times: It Was Wokeism that Sabotaged the French Train System

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/08/07/ny-times-it-was-wokeism-that-sabotaged-the-french-train-system-n3792846

Do you remember this coordinated arson attack on the French rail system? Beege wrote about it here. It happened just about two weeks ago as the Olympics were starting in Paris. Some unknown group set fires that wound up snarling the country's high-speed rail system for most of the day. On the day it happened there was no claim of responsibility so everyone was left wondering. What authorities did know was that whoever did it had a detailed knowledge of the French system.

As the country’s train system jewel, the high-speed network remains its most protected, Mr. Dansart said, with fences, security cameras, protected access doors and tours by agents at the most critical locations.

That spurred speculation that the attackers had access to internal information.

“People had to know how the trains work and the location of these boxes,” said Guillaume Farde, a security expert who teaches at the Sciences Po university in Paris. “You have to have the right information.”

Today the NY Times revealed that one day after the attack, they and other media outlets did receive a claim of responsibility from a group which appears to be part of the French ultraleft. The email itself was anonymous but based on the arguments made in the email, I don't have much doubt that's who sent it.

One potential clue being examined by investigators is an anonymous email which was sent a day after the attack to The New York Times and other media organizations and which celebrated the sabotage. It claimed that the attacks were intended to disrupt the Olympics, which the email called a “celebration of nationalism” and a “testing ground” for mass policing that shows how states “subjugate populations.”

The email, which was signed “an unexpected delegation,” in a reference to the Olympics, was sent from an anonymous email address created on Riseup, a platform that “provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change,” according to its website.

The text of the email criticized France’s weapons export industry, condemned police brutality, castigated French companies like Total or Alstom for wreaking social and environmental havoc and took a dim view of France’s high-speed train system.

“Railroads are not an innocuous infrastructure,” the email said. “They have always been a means of colonizing new territories, a prerequisite for their devastation, and a ready-made path for the extension of capitalism and state control.”

JOHN SEXTON 8:40 PM | August 07, 2024