The projections before the closing ceremony is interrupted. Nice, Mandelieu and Antibes also affected
A Vasto Blackout On Saturday 24 May the south of France struck, causing widespread current interruptions a few hours after the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival. Similar problems have also occurred to Nice, Mandelieu, Antibes And on the entire area of the Maritime Alps, where thousands of people found themselves without electricity since the early hours of the morning. The authorities speak of “probable malicious act“And confirm the start of aninvestigation by the policeafter the stake of a high voltage cabin in the municipality of Tanneron.
Despite the unexpected, the direction of the Festival reassures the regular performance of the evening: “The Palais des Festivals has moved to an independent electricity, allowing all the events and scheduled projections, including the closing ceremony, to take place as expected and under normal conditions”.
Blackout in Cannes, Firm salt and paralyzed city
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The first sign of alarm occurred Shortly after 10when the screen suddenly died during the screening of the film Sirat in the Debussy room. However, it was not an isolated failure: the phenomenon also spread to all other rooms. The electricity has returned to sob for a few hours; Outside the Palais, people found themselves In a completely blocked city. Many businesses have been forced to close; Others instead operated with strong limitations. The Internet also worked intermittently for most of the day.
“A current interruption is currently affecting the City of Cannes and the surrounding areas“, reads the official press release of the Festival.” At the moment, the cause of the Blackout has not yet been identified. Interventions are underway for the restoration of electricity. The Palais des Festivals has gone to an independent electricity, allowing the regular performance of all the events and projections scheduled, including the closing ceremony, as the organizers guarantee “. Instead, the projections to the Cineum suspended. The technicians of RTE and Enedis, responsible for the French network, “are currently working for restore the electrical power supply as quickly as possible“.
Connection with the Spanish case?
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The difficulties on the electricity grid manifested evidently from 8.30 in the morning, to culminate in the fall of a trellis and in the following total blackout around 10 am. According to reports from the gendarmerie of the French Alps, contacted by France 3a suspect is suspected malicious fire as a trigger. “Criminal police technical experts are on the spot and are investigating what happened”, the authorities know. We investigate thehypothesis of a deliberate actionpotentially similar for dynamics to that happened in Spain three weeks ago. On that occasion, a similar blackout had hit several Iberian cities, paralyzing commercial activities and infrastructures in the urban center. The French authorities, for the moment, do not confirm but they don’t even exclude A direct connection between the two episodes.
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