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Re:France High-Speed Rail Traffic Disrupted by 'Malicious Ac... by mamonster on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:21AM (#41078421)
>people making those thousands of trains run everyday all over the country are almost the most passionate workers you could imagine.

I would probably also be really passionate about all the treasures I amassed by successfully threatening to strike at opportune moments. France is lucky EDF workers at nuclear plants or other critical infrastructure aren't so "passionate".

>They’ll never harm infrastructure and never, never ever in a coordinated way.

I mean, given the sort of attacks that happened, you can already be pretty certain that whoever did them had very good inside information about how the network works.

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Re:France High-Speed Rail Traffic Disrupted by 'Malicious Ac... by liotier on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:56AM (#41078710)
No. Pjerem obviously knows cheminots - they worship rail infrastructure. Labour conflicts involving cheminots are often brutal, but harming the rail infrastructure is a taboo never transgressed.

In general, in labour conflicts across any industry, destroying the very instruments that provide legitimate power as a worker is so stupid that it is just not done.

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Re:France High-Speed Rail Traffic Disrupted by 'Malicious Ac... by mamonster on Friday July 26, 2024 @10:01AM (#41078745)
I would love to think like you, but one of the legacies of Martinez(and now Binet) is that CGT is now so openly political in terms of higher ups that such things can be outsourced to some left wing militias.

Not suggesting Figaro is unbiased, but they are already reporting possible left wing involvement:

https://www.lefigaro.fr/faits-divers/sabotage-sur-le-reseau-...

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