Two French towns were knocked offline for several nights after a parent’s misguided attempt to curb their children’s internet use, according to local reports.
Residents of Messanges and a neighbouring town in south-west France lost access to the internet and phone signal from midnight to 3am across multiple dates when an unnamed man used a multi-wave band jammer, France Bleu reported.
The unnamed man faces a €30,000 fine and up to six months in prison if found guilty of causing the mass outage.
A mobile phone operator was first alerted to the issue when one of its antennas stopped working in Messanges. A technician from the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) went to the site with equipment to detect where the disruption was coming from