{"id":128341,"date":"2025-05-24T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128341\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:34:17","slug":"power-outage-hits-cannes-film-festival-and-traffic-in-southeastern-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128341\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage hits Cannes Film Festival and traffic in southeastern France"},"content":{"rendered":"

CANNES, France — A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a> as the prestigious event prepared to hand out its top prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About 160,000 households in the Alpes-Maritimes department lost electricity after a high-voltage line fell Saturday morning, electricity network operator RTE said on X. The outage came hours after a fire at an electrical substation near Cannes overnight had already weakened the grid.<\/p>\n

Cannes Film Festival<\/a> organizers confirmed the outage affected the early activities of Saturday and said the Palais des Festivals \u2014 the Croisette’s main venue \u2014 had switched to an independent power supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll scheduled events and screenings<\/a>, including the Closing Ceremony, will proceed as planned and under normal conditions,\u201d the statement said. “At this stage, the cause of the outage has not yet been identified. Restoration efforts are underway.”<\/p>\n

Still, screenings at the Cineum, one of the festival\u2019s satellite venues, were briefly suspended, the festival added.<\/p>\n

Traffic lights in parts of Cannes and the surrounding city of Antibes stopped working after 10 a.m., leading to traffic jams and confusion in city centers. Most shops along the Croisette remained closed, and local food kiosks were only accepting cash. Train service in Cannes was also disrupted.<\/p>\n

Authorities said restoration efforts were ongoing and urged residents to remain cautious during travel.<\/p>\n

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For more coverage of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, visit https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cannes-film-festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANNES, France — A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[56608,3907,6639,77,2000,299,36,4179,45311,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-128341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-56608","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-cannes-film-festival","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-power-outages","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114563544854083439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}