Several towns in the Alpes-Maritimes and Var plunged into darkness due to a giant power cut

An evening by candlelight in perspective. A power cut plunges several neighborhoods in different towns in the Alpes-Maritimes and Var into darkness on Wednesday October 11, RTE told franceinfo. “Our teams are mobilized to repair the breakdown which is linked to a technical incident on our network which led to an overload and therefore outages”says the French network manager.

Among them, Nice. According to its mayor Christian Estrosi, “130,000 people” of his cityas well as in other localities in the Alpes-Maritimes and Var, are affected by this breakdown, the origin of which is still unknown. “RTE teams are currently intervening to return to normal as soon as possible”confirms the chosen one on Twitter.

On X (formerly Twitter), the national police in Nice ask residents to “do not saturate the 17th to leave the emergency lines free”. “This outage affects 260,000 homes in the Var.”says François de Canson, vice-president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, on Facebook. In Cannes, the Women’s Volleyball League A match against Vandoeuvre-Nancy had to be interrupted after the Palais des Victoires was plunged into darkness.