Fire! The Olympic and fraternal one that Paris 2024 was preparing to light this Friday evening was preceded by the dramatic and criminal one that burned down nerve centers of the TGV network on Thursday night. On this D-Day of the Games, cables are melting at the SNCF and its CEO would have reason to blow one in turn. Faced with the “massive attack” by a “gang of irresponsible people”, Jean-Pierre Farandou alternates between anger and dismay. Like all of us, through the sabotage of the SNCF, “it is France that is being attacked.”