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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