France’s rail network has been’paralysed’ by a series of co-ordinated arson attacks today, affecting nearly a million people travelling to the Olympic games.

Flames engulfed train tracks at ‘strategic points’ across the country – with hours to go before the Opening Ceremony on the River Seine in Paris.

Gare du Nord, where the Eurostar stops in Paris, is also affected by the attacks on the rail network, said a spokesperson for SNCF, the national state-owned railway company in the country.

Eurostar customers at London St Pancras, which travels directly to Paris, have been been told to cancel their trips…