They arrested three people who cut a fiber optic cable and left Tolhuin and Ushuaia without telephony and Internet

This Tuesday morning, three men wanted to affect the operation of a British radar of the company Leolabs and ended up interrupting the telephone and Internet service of Tolhuin and Ushuaia.Police personnel saw on the premises of the El Relincho ranch a Peugeot 405 parked at the entrance, on the side of Route 3. This vehicle had already been recognized the day before in the caravan that had arrived at that place in protest against the presence of the aforementioned radar. The subjects were arrested. The authorities who remained in the area, found that the detainees had tried to sabotage the radar and ended up cutting the wiring of the company that provides telephone and internet services. “Claro reports that today, at 10am, there was sabotage in Fiber Optics on National Route 3, 8 km from Tolhuin. The intentional outage affected the mobile services provided by the company in the city of Tolhuin and Usuhaia. The local police arrested three people who would make the intentional cut of the Fiber and are available to Justice. This act constitutes a crime under articles 194 and 197 of the penal code by interrupting telecommunications services that are federal in nature. In addition to causing significant economic damage. At 5 p.m. the service was restored,” the company said.

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