Chaos in France before the opening of the OIympic Games: Sabotage suspected? VIDEO

French state-owned rail company SNCF said the outage affected the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern high-speed lines, with several of its facilities damaged.

SNCF said one of the attacks had been "thwarted".

SNCF said traffic on these lines was "very disrupted" and the rail network had to divert and cancel a large number of trains.

They noted that team members are on site to oversee repairs, however, they said the situation is expected to last throughout the weekend.

"We ask all passengers to postpone their journey and not to go to the station," the announcement states.

The Rémi railway center in Val-de-Loire also said its train lines would be suspended until at least Monday as a fire near the tracks in Courteline, northern France, caused disruption to travel to Paris.

The disruption occurred just hours before the Olympic torch relay ends and the opening ceremony begins.

CNN has reached out to the International Olympic Committee for comment.

French Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra said the disruption to the rail lines was "a kind of coordinated sabotage".

She condemned the attacks and said they were "truly horrible".

"Playing against the Games means playing against France, against your camp, against your country," she said, BFMTV reports.

Oudéa-Castéra said the incidents will disrupt travel on Friday as well as the weekend.

"We will assess the impact on passengers, athletes and ensure proper transportation of all delegations to the venue of the competition," she said.