He Theft of about 300 meters of cables I left more than 10,000 travelers And about thirty trains this Sunday in the high speed line, which joins Madrid with Andalusia. Great doubt at the present time if the incidence has been caused “Serious sabotage“How the government protects, or, if what happened to the usual robbery for the sale of copper in the black market.
In any case, this type of incidents not only occurs in Spain. Our neighboring countries have recently suffered such episodesEspecially in 2025, enhancing the theft of copper, which made them strengthen safety.
France suffered very oftenAnd the country’s main railway company had to suspend the service several times in recent months. Decorated material in the Gallic country is an assessment loss of 20 million euros. Therefore, the authorities decided to put agents to monitor strategic areas or even do it with drones and trackers.
Theft of cables in railway infrastructure is also a repeated phenomenon in Italy, Belgium or AustriaWhere dozens of cases occurred this year.
But if there is clear parallelism with what happened this week, this is Germany. A week ago, Berlin and average closing network traffic was paralyzed For another Latrocinio in the wiring, as a result of which thousands of passengers are abandoned for hours.
Nevertheless, None of these countries was spoke directly from sabotageHow the Ministry of Transport and Renfa did directly.
