The French police favor the sabotage theory in the serious train accident on Friday evening, when a train with 180 passengers – between Caen and Rouen, in the north – derailed. There were 44 injured, one woman is in serious condition.
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Premeditated act hypothesis
The hypothesis of a premeditated act to cause the accident had already emerged immediately after the incident. Since last night, a photo of a long piece of rail cut and placed between the tracks has been circulating on social media.
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The piece of metal would have been placed on the rails and caused the train to derail. According to reconstructions, which the police now consider more credible, the accident occurred around 7:45 pm, while the train was traveling at 140 km/h and hit a metal object on the tracks. At that moment, the train was between Tourville and Elbeuf-Saint-Aubin, near the municipality of Cléon.
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