Right to forced disconnection.
This Monday, the inhabitants of Namps-Maisnil, south-west of Amiens, in the Somme, woke up cut off from the world.
Finally deprived of internet rather.
An incident whose cause is the theft of a portion of network cable, according to our colleagues from France Bleu Picardie.
320 households without internet for a week
In Hauts-de-France, news items involving cable thieves have become commonplace.
We have already seen the streetlights of entire streets emptied of their precious copper wires.
This time, the criminals also attacked a large piece by stealing no less than 1,500 meters of a network cable along the departmental 38 which connects the municipalities of Quevauvillers and Namps-Maisnil.
It was the operator Orange who made the discovery, indicating that this theft deprived 320 homes of Namps-Maisnil of Internet connection.
Orange also clarified that customers of other operators were impacted.
A complaint was filed and an investigation opened.
In the meantime, the disconnected will have to be patient, Orange having estimated that the repair could take a week.
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