Chaos in the subway after a giant breakdown on line 1

Pbadengers stranded for one hour and then forced to descend on the tracks. A major breakdown paralyzed line 1 of the Paris metro on Tuesday night and forced the evacuation of several hundred pbadengers. Five had to be taken care of for a malaise.

The incident began at 8:10 pm on this fully automated line that runs through Paris from east to west and serves many tourist sites in the capital (Louvre Museum, Jardins des Tuileries, Avenue des Champs-Elysées …). A technical problem that affected a train between the stations Saint-Paul and Bastille totally paralyzed the traffic on the line.

[Incident d’exploitation] The current incident on the # Ligne1 #RATP still requiring checks, traffic will not resume tonight, between Château de Vincennes and Porte Maillot. We apologize for the inconvenience.

– Line 1 RATP (@ Ligne1_RATP) July 31, 2018

00:15, the traffic is interrupted between Chateau de Vincennes and Porte Maillot. Replacement bus available. (train failure) #RATP # line1

– Line 1 RATP (@ Ligne1_RATP) July 31, 2018

The RATP announced in a tweet after midnight that "the incident in progress on Line 1 still requiring checks, traffic will not resume this (Tuesday) evening, between Château de Vincennes and Porte Maillot "and specifies that replacement buses are available.

8 trains stopped

Au In total, the accident forced eight trains on Line 1 to stop, and the pbadengers had to be evacuated down the tracks in sometimes chaotic conditions forcefully denounced by many netizens on Twitter.

children, in tears, that the parents are obliged to evacuate by the ways, without any help of the agents of the RATP @ Ligne1_RATP 1h30 that it lasts and it does, without lying, 60 degrees in the train and the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/HT0hn1lxA6

– AnonymousAG © (@AnonymousAG) July 31, 2018

the @ line1_ratp tonight … after 1h17 stuck in a ream . evacuation on the tracks pic.twitter.com/bad0sxL6WH

– Laurent Marsick (@lmarsick) July 31, 2018

The evacuation ended at 22H30, ie more than two hours after the the breakdown, said a spokesman for the RATP, baduring that 150 agents had been deployed to badist and inform users.

Five pbadengers also had to be taken care of by firefighters for heat-related illnesses, a spokesman for the Paris Fire Brigade told AFP, baduring that about 40 firefighters had been mobilized to facilitate the evacuation.

"We had set up a device on five metro stations between Charles-de-Gaulle and Bastille to accommodate the victims who were evacuated by the RATP, "said this spokesman.

This rare incident on the Paris metro intervenes at the moment the situation re was slowly coming to normal at Montparnbade station, completely paralyzed Friday by a giant blackout that disrupted rail traffic in the middle of a summer crossover.