The electrical panel of a railway was intentionally burned in the night from Monday to Tuesday in Folles, some 40 km north of Limoges, Haute-Vienne, causing disruption of trains. The perpetrators of this act are members of an unknown antinuclear group, according to concordant sources Wednesday.
According to the prosecutor's office in Limoges, which opened an investigation, the sabotage occurred at a junction to leave the Paris-Toulouse line to go to a site belonging to the French nuclear giant, Orano (ex- Areva). The operation was claimed by email from the daily Le Populaire du Center by an unknown antinuclear group called "Sabotage Bessines".
"We do not want nuclear, nowhere"
By referring to an "act 30", according to a terminology used by "yellow vests", the group claims that it "sabotages the installation of the train line that supplies the Bessines nuclear discharge" (the Bessines-sur site). -Gartempe, Editor's note). Pointing to the "irradiated shit" produced, the group claims that the former Areva "is part of the general movement of capitalist society that is taking the world into the wall, no one wants nuclear power anywhere," he wrote again.
According to the SNCF, the fire simply caused Tuesday slowdowns for two Intercités on the axis Paris-Toulouse and the removal of three TER. The prosecution has opened an investigation for "destruction of property belonging to another by fire, likely to create a danger to people", a crime punishable by 10 years in prison. On July 12, 2013, the locomotive of a train carrying waste to the same uranium storage center had derailed, an act also claimed by a group claiming to be antinuclear. An investigation was unsuccessful, as it was in April 2014 when a arson attack hit a museum of the local mine, financed by Areva.