{"id":143180,"date":"2025-05-24T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/arson-suspected-as-power-outage-disrupts-final-day-of-cannes-film-festival-national\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:46:31","slug":"arson-suspected-as-energy-outage-disrupts-remaining-day-of-cannes-film-festival-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/arson-suspected-as-energy-outage-disrupts-remaining-day-of-cannes-film-festival-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson suspected as energy outage disrupts remaining day of Cannes Film Festival &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A serious energy outage struck southeastern <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> on Saturday morning, threatening to jeopardize the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cannes-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannes Film Festival\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0closing celebrations, together with the much-anticipated Palme d\u2019Or ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police stated they&#8217;ve opened an investigation into potential arson.<\/p>\n<p>Power was restored hours earlier than the ceremony, round 3 p.m. native time, as music started blasting once more from beachfront audio system. The finish of the blackout was greeted with loud cheers from locals.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, about 160,000 households within the Alpes-Maritimes division misplaced electrical energy after a high-voltage line fell Saturday morning, electrical energy community operator RTE stated on X. The outage got here hours after a fireplace at {an electrical} substation close to Cannes in a single day had already weakened the grid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National information<\/h2>\n<p>For information impacting Canada and world wide, join breaking information alerts delivered on to you after they occur.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking into the likelihood of a fire being started deliberately,\u201d stated a police spokesperson for the French nationwide gendarmerie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an announcement, Laurent Hottiaux, the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes division, condemned \u201cserious acts of damage to electrical infrastructures\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll resources are mobilized to identify, track down, arrest and bring to justice the perpetrators of these acts,\u201d stated Hottiaux.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cannes-2025-doom-gloom-movies-mood-ff276fba43706e6ac48833112795ffc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0organizers confirmed the outage affected the early actions of Saturday and stated the Palais des Festivals \u2014 the Croisette\u2019s fundamental venue \u2014 had switched to an unbiased energy provide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on World<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More movies<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAll scheduled events and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jafar-panahi-cannes-iran-new-movie-325b4ef247493bd7f948758eb5113acd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screenings<\/a>, including the Closing Ceremony, will proceed as planned and under normal conditions,\u201d the assertion stated. \u201cAt this stage, the cause of the outage has not yet been identified. Restoration efforts are underway.\u201d<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11193378\/canada-post-strike-overtime-ban\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/645a0e071883e159d231de3357aef645c0ee57182ddb739634d174d0371321ae.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Canada Post workers will refuse overtime as union starts strike action\" data-title=\"\">Canada Post staff will refuse extra time as union begins strike motion<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11190420\/what-is-mouth-taping\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2182639488.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Should you be mouth taping? What\u2019s driving the viral trend\" data-title=\"\">Should you be mouth taping? What\u2019s driving the viral pattern<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>Traffic lights in elements of Cannes and the encompassing metropolis of Antibes stopped working after 10 a.m., resulting in site visitors jams and confusion in metropolis facilities. Most retailers alongside the Croisette remained closed, and native meals kiosks had been solely accepting money. Train service in Cannes was additionally disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Screenings on the Cineum, one of many pageant\u2019s satellite tv for pc venues, had been briefly suspended, the pageant added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cannes-2025-palme-dor-awards-72ccfe497665406489f8a9b997eda224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Palme d\u2019Or<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the pageant\u2019s most prestigious prize \u2014 was set to be awarded Saturday night time, with high contenders together with Joachim Trier\u2019s household drama \u201cSentimental Value,\u201d Jafar Panahi\u2019s revenge thriller \u201cIt Was Just an Accident,\u201d Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho\u2019s political thriller \u201cThe Secret Agent,\u201d and \u00d3liver Laxe\u2019s desert street journey \u201cSir\u00e2t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A serious energy outage struck southeastern France on Saturday morning, threatening to jeopardize the Cannes Film Festival\u2019s\u00a0closing celebrations, together with the much-anticipated Palme d\u2019Or ceremony. Police stated they&#8217;ve opened an investigation into potential arson. Power was restored hours earlier than the ceremony, round 3 p.m. native time, as music started blasting once more from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8246,616,931,10975,508,263,902,192,6661,3547,7047],"class_list":{"0":"post-143180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-arson","9":"tag-cannes","10":"tag-day","11":"tag-disrupts","12":"tag-festival","13":"tag-film","14":"tag-final","15":"tag-national","16":"tag-outage","17":"tag-power","18":"tag-suspected"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}