The trains were immediately stopped. This Friday morning, a paraglider who must have missed his landing found himself stuck in a catenary, the cables which power the railway tracks, near Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, between Nice and Monaco, he said. we learned from the firefighters.
The man in his sixties, who apparently was not injured, managed to unhook himself but his sail remained stuck in the catenaries, the Departmental Fire and Safety Service said at midday. Alpes-Maritimes rescue.
The SNCF confirms the presence of an “obstacle on the track at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin” and indicates that “traffic is interrupted in both directions between Nice and Ventimiglia” with “delays and cancellations” of trains to be expected.