Suspected vandalism knocked out power to the French Riviera town Cannes on the final day of its film festival on Saturday, but organisers said the show would go on at their glitzy closing ceremony. A suspected arson attack on a local substation and the sabotage of an electricity pylon along the coast were blamed for the more than five-hour outage.

A power cut in southern France caused by suspected sabotage has disrupted screenings on the final day of the Cannes Film Festival, reports the BBC.

Deliberate acts of sabotage left much of southeastern France without power on the final day of the glamorous Cannes Film Festival, threatening the closing ceremonies.