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Cannes Hit by Power Sabotage as Film Festival Draws to a Close
- A major power outage caused by suspected arson disrupted the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, the event's final day, in Cannes and surrounding areas.
- Officials attributed the blackout to a suspected arson fire at a substation 12 kilometres northwest of Cannes and damage to a coastal electricity pylon.
- The outage lasted over five hours, affecting about 160,000 homes and halting card payments at restaurants and cash machines, forcing attendees to use cash.
- Festival organisers switched to an alternative power supply to maintain events and screenings, assuring the closing ceremony would proceed as planned despite disruptions.
- The incident highlighted a politically charged festival atmosphere marked by open letters denouncing genocide in Palestine and outspoken remarks on global conflicts and leadership.
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Five Hours of Blackout in Cannes Before the Closing of the Festival - teleSUR English
Blackout in Cannes early this Saturday morning, which forced to stop the last screenings of the Festival, which began to fear for its closing gala scheduled for the night, a cut that the authorities attribute to a sabotage that lasted five hours. RELATED: Anomalies Revealed in Spain’s Power Grid Weeks Before Major Blackout Around 160,000 homes were left without power, but not the festival palace, which is equipped with its own generators, leadin…
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