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People talk during a blackout
Electricity failure occurs in Cannes (and not only), on the day of the closing of the famous Film Festival. Post fell; will have criminal origin.
Nearly 160 thousand houses They stayed today without electricity Not southeast of France, due to a failure of energy that was caused by a fire in a substation of the region of Cannes And the cut in a high voltage line, said the RTE manager.
The ‘blackout’ affected several cities in the western part of the sea seasters, including Cannes, a city where the closing ceremony of its Movie festivalwith the delivery of the Golden Palm.
The ‘blackout’ occurred around 10:00 pm (less one hour in mainland Portugal).
The Electric Transport Network (RTE) has indicated that their teams are working to restore energy as soon as possible, and in the early hours of the morning, around 2:45 (1:45 in Lisbon), there was a fire in a substation in the Cannes region, which forced to cut the power supply for several minutes and, although it was restored, caused the weakening of the network.
Around 10:00 local, one Post fell About a power line in a different place, causing the current ‘blackout’, added RTE.
Journalists from Franceinfo and France Inter in Cannes and Antibes say that, as happened recently and in Spain, the traffic lights do not work and there are problems in traffic.
Since 10 a.m., a sidelines the town of and the surrounding municipalities and has deprived 160,000 power supply households. The RTE and Enedis teams are being intervention to restore the current as soon as possible. Rte presents his …
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According to, the malfunction was in fact caused at dawn by a fire – which probably had criminal origin, in a high voltage substation in Tanneron (VAR).
The closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, scheduled for 19h today, Saturday, will take place last, guarantees the organization. The Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, where the event will take place, has an independent power supply system.
