Blackout covered Cannes a few hours before the awards of the Cannes Film Festival. Some of the films cannot show – there is no light, the Internet does not work.
The organizers and local authorities have not yet made official statements on the situation. The closing ceremony scheduled for 19:00 (20:00 Moscow time) has not yet been canceled. However, according to Screen Daily, the festival was transferred to power from generators, so there is a ceremony.
The problem affected other communes of the western part of the French Department of Primorsky Alps. The traffic lights and all-all-all turned off. On the video – the situation in one of the cinemas after the light is turned off.
UPD. The failure is connected with a night fire at a local substation. According to BFMTV and Franceinfo, we can talk about arson. There was a fire at night, extinguished it by morning. In addition, the support of the high -voltage power line was fed. As a result, 160 thousand households were left without light.
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