French Police Blames Arson For Large Riviera Power Outage
Train timetable screens remain offline at Cannes' train station during a power outage, in France, on May 24.
Photographer: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images
French police said a major power outage that affected up to 160,000 homes in the French Riviera city of Cannes and its surroundings was caused by arson.
The head of the local police strongly condemned the “infringement against our infrastructure” in a statement, and said that the cut was the result of a fire that started at 4.30 a.m. local time at a high tension electrical substation. An electronic pylon was also severely damaged in a nearby area, according to the statement.