{"id":133261,"date":"2025-05-26T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133261\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:45:09","slug":"two-anarchist-groups-claim-responsibility-for-cannes-and-nice-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133261\/","title":{"rendered":"Two anarchist groups claim responsibility for Cannes and Nice power outages"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By\u00a0Euronews<\/b><\/p>\n

\n Published on 26\/05\/2025 – 13:29 GMT+2\u2022Updated
\n 13:51<\/p>\n

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Two anarchist groups in France have claimed responsibility for a power outage that left more than 160,000 homes without power in the south of the country.<\/p>\n

The blackout affected the city of Nice and the Cannes Film Festival as well as knocking out power to vital services like traffic lights and cash machines.<\/p>\n

Local officials said they suspected the outage was caused by an arson attack and two self-styled “bands of anarchists” said they were behind the attack.<\/p>\n

UK media said the groups had published an anonymous letter on Sunday in which they reportedly wrote: “The aim of the action was not only to disrupt the festival, but also to deprive all industrial establishments of electricity.”<\/p>\n

But the groups didn\u2019t explain why they wanted to target the festival or industrial sites.<\/p>\n

According to the public prosecutor’s office, a fire broke out at an electrical transformer in the Moulins district in the west of Nice.<\/p>\n

Mayor Christian Estrosi said the fire had been deliberately started and that he “strongly condemned these malicious acts that affect our country” in a post on X. <\/p>\n

He added that the city would be strengthening its security around electrical sites in the coming days and that a formal complaint would be filed following the incident. <\/p>\n

Power was restored around 6 am on Sunday. The neighbouring towns of Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Cagnes-sur-Mer were also affected by the blackout.<\/p>\n

The incident follows a blackout that struck Cannes and the surrounding region the previous day, affecting nearly 160,000 homes. <\/p>\n

A high-voltage substation was set on fire in the Var department, and a power pylon was sawn down in the Alpes-Maritimes. <\/p>\n

Despite the disruption, the Cannes Film Festival proceeded as planned on its final day, thanks to its independent power supply. Electricity was restored to the region by late afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Euronews Published on 26\/05\/2025 – 13:29 GMT+2\u2022Updated 13:51 ADVERTISEMENT Two anarchist groups in France have claimed responsibility for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58651,15272,6639,1312,77,36,28931,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-133261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-anarchist-group","9":"tag-blackout","10":"tag-cannes-film-festival","11":"tag-electricity","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-nice","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114574204847423852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133261","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=133261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}