The large power failure meets the prominent film festival on the final day and has an impact in the region.
The French police examined a possible arson attack as the main cause of a power failure that met in the Alpes-Maritimes region in southern France, including Cannes, which organizes its world-famous annual equipment Film festival.
āWe are considering the likelihood that a fire will be started,ā said a spokesman for the French National Gendarmerie on Saturday and added that no arrests had been made at that time.
The local authority for the Alpes-Maritimes region used to say on Saturday that the western part of the area, which also includes Cannes, suffers from a large power failure and that the raster operator RTE France was working on restoring the power supply.
The failure, which had affected 160,000 houses, according to RTE and regional officials, began on Saturday shortly after 10 a.m. local time (8:00 a.m.).
Police sources said that the failure was caused by an overnight fire, probably an arson attack, with a high -voltage voltage in the village of Tanneron.
Traffic lights were switched off and the companies were closed on the main shopping street of the Alpes-Maritimes-holiday destination.
Separate force Overrun failures The Iberian Peninsula and parts of southern France on Monday that disrupt critical infrastructure and airport farms. Officials played a bad game.
While Spain and Portugal suffered power outages Last month, according to the French electricity transmission network, the French Basque Country recorded short power outages with just a few minutes that only lasted a few minutes.
The latest failure came only hours before the 78th Film Festival from Cannes on Saturday evening with a award ceremony at the Palais of the Festival.
Despite the power failure, the organizers of the festival said that they are to maintain the events and demonstrations planned for today under normal conditions, including the closing ceremony.
After a politically defendant two weeks, a jury listed by the French actor Juliette Binoche will probably announce the winners under 22 films who are fighting for the best film for the best film.
This year the invasion of Russia in Ukraine, The genocide in the Gaza and President of the United States Donald Trump were the biggest discussion points at the festival. According to the organizers, more than 900 actors and filmmakers signed an open letter that denounced the genocide in Gaza Strip.
