Arrests in train attacks: French police this week arrested 10 people with links to far-left groups on suspicion of sabotaging high-speed trains. Over the past few weeks, there have been six attacks on the trains, ranging from the cutting of overhead power cables to the placing of concrete blocks on the tracks. Nobody was injured, but dozens of trains were delayed. Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said the 10 suspects belong to an anarchist group that was believed to be plotting violent acts. “These individuals are characterized by a total rejection of any democratic expression of political opinion and an extremely violent tone,” she said. Anarchists terrorized France in the 1980s, killing 13 people in a wave of attacks on what they called the capitalist infrastructure.
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