New power outage in the Alpes-Maritimes after the fire of a transformer in Nice-Liberation
After Cannes and its festival plunged into darkness The space of a few minutes due to the sabotage of two electrical installations is the turn of the city of Nice to be affected. A fire broke out on the night of Saturday to Sunday on an electric transformer located in the city of the Alpes-Maritimes, target of a « Malicious act » According to Mayor Christian Estrosi. The fire broke out at night on this electric post located in Moulinsa district plagued by drug trafficking in the west of Nicespecifies the prosecution.
Some 45,000 households were then temporarily deprived of electricity in Nice and in the neighboring municipalities of Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Cagnes-sur-Mer, according to the information provided by Enedis. The Nice tram network was affected for a time, with a delayed resumption at the start of the morning, and the airport, a time deprived of electricity, « Has been briefly realized », said the deputy mayor Gaël Nofri. At 6 am this Sunday, the current was completely restored.
« I forcefully denounce these acts which affect our country », reacted this Sunday morning Christian Estrosi. The Mayor Horizons of Nice also announced the strengthening « From the next few days » surveillance of « Strategic electric sites » of the city. He notably asked the municipal police services to « mobilize » Faced with these acts « Which can have considerable consequences, especially on health establishments ». « As long as the authors of these facts have not been arrested we will not relax any attention either », He also assured during a press briefing. The councilor announced the filing of a complaint by the city.
This fire occurs in the aftermath of voluntary degradations on two electrical installations, a high tension position set in the Var and a sawn pylon in the Alpes-Maritimes, which caused a blackout of several hours in the region, affecting 160,000 households, in particular in Cannes, in the middle of the cinema festival, preserved thanks to its autonomous food system.
Without making a link between these various incidents, the deputy mayor of Nice said that « According to elements communicated by firefighters, an access door to the transformer was forced ». He also announced that the mayor had decided to « Strengthen monitoring of the city’s electrical installations ».
