The energy cut interrupts the last day of the Cannes Film Festival; Police investigating possible fires caused

The French authorities believe that the cause caused may have played a role in a blackout on Saturday in southeastern France that threatened to endanger the final celebrations of the Cannes Film Festival, including the long -awaited Palma d’Or ceremony.

The power was restored hours before the ceremony, around 3 pm local time, when music began to fly again from the speakers in front of the sea. The end of the blackout was received with strong cheers from the locals.

The authorities were investigating the probability of fire caused in a fire in an electrical substation near Cannes that weakened the network during the night, said a spokesman for the French national gendarmerie.

The energy cut occurred hours later, after a high voltage line fell elsewhere. The authorities were investigating what caused that line to collapse.

Around 160,000 homes in the Alpes-Maritimes area lost electricity.

In a statement, Laurent Hottiaux, the prefect for the area, condemned “serious acts of damage to electrical infrastructure.”

“All resources are mobilized to identify, locate, arrest and bring justice to the perpetrators of these acts,” Hottiaux said.

The organizers of the Cannes Film Festival confirmed that the interruption affected the first activities on Saturday and said that the Palais Des festivals, the main place of Croisette, had changed to an independent energy supply.

The alignment was presented last month for Cannes.

“All programmed events and projections, including the closing ceremony, will proceed as planned and under normal conditions,” said the statement. “At this stage, the cause of the interruption has not yet been identified. Restoration efforts are underway.”

The traffic lights in parts of Cannes and the city of Antibes surrounding them stopped working after 10 am local time, which led to traffic jams and confusion in the city centers. Most of the stores along the croisette remained closed, and the local food kiosks only accepted effective. The train trains in Cannes was also interrupted.

The projections in the cineum, one of the satellite places of the festival, were briefly suspended, added the festival.

The Palma D’Or Prize, the most prestigious prize of the festival, will be awarded on Saturday night, with the main contestants, including the family drama of Joachim Trier, “sentimental value”, the thriller of revenge of Jafar Panahi “was just an accident”, “the secret agent and the secret agent of Kleber Mendonça Filh “.” “.” “

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