South Africa: Saboteurs attack French railways, causing chaos just hours before Olympic ceremonySaboteurs strike French railways in coordinated attack, causing chaos hours before Olympics ceremony

The coordinated sabotage took place as France rolled out an unprecedented peacetime security operation involving tens of thousands of police and soldiers to lock down the capital for the Games, sucking in security resources from across the country.

The state-owned railway operator said vandals had damaged signal boxes along the lines connecting Paris with cities such as Lille in the north, Bordeaux in the west and Strasbourg in the east. Another attack on the Paris-Marseille line was…