Gers residents deprived of telephone and Internet ... because of a nutria

A nutria in the open field (Illustration).

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Far from him the idea of ​​cutting off nine municipalities from the digital world for two days.

But by planting its teeth in the fiber optic network on Thursday, a nutria from the Gers created a telephone and Internet failure among nearly 700 subscribers in municipalities located around Nogaro, reports

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#Nogaro @ LeGers32 the nutria sabotages the #fibre @GersNumerique the # Hérosduréeeau technicians @orange had to fight for 2 days to discover the scene of the crime and restore the lines !!!

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- laure ragueneau (@laurerag) September 12, 2020

A failure not very easy to identify for Orange technicians.

Indeed, the line measuring 14 kilometers, it was a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack through the Gers countryside.

After struggling for several hours, they finally discovered the source of the problem.

And especially the author of this forced disconnection, a nutria.

Eventually the line was restored.

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