Increased vigilance. Following the sabotage that affected several TGV lines and disrupted the travel of hundreds of thousands of passengers, the protection measures for the rail network will be reviewed, the Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, August 1. The resigning minister, Gérald Darmanin, has pledged to “strengthen the presence of law enforcement to secure sensitive networks, particularly the railway network, by increasing night-time checks on routes adjacent to railway lines”.
As early as Friday, the minister had given the prefects “for instructions to strengthen this vigilance and increase patrols near sensitive locations, in conjunction with the SNCF”For his part, the resigning Minister of Transport, Patrice Vergriete, called on the SNCF to “strengthen its measures to monitor the rail network”as well as “to be available to the police to facilitate their actions alongside railway security officers”.
