Paul Moss

What they are saying is that this echoes what happened in France during the Paris Olympics in 2024.

when the high-speed network was targeted by a group of people, but the officials were blaming various groups, including anarchists and extreme left.

And they said probably the similar kind of thing was happening, but the ministers in Italy saying that it will not deter them and the Olympics will continue.

This also comes two days after the Italian authorities were talking about cyber attacks, which they blame on Russia, targeting foreign ministry websites, some of the Olympic Games website as well.

There can't be many people who've served as a country's culture minister, but also been sent to North Korea to talk about its nuclear missile programme and advise the United Nations on how to prosecute Somali pirates.

But then Jack Lang was a giant of the French political and cultural scene over several decades.

which makes it all the more pointed that he's now been brought down by his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

He joins the ever-growing list of people whose reputations have been tarnished or ruined by their relationship with a late sex offender.

Our Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield has the details.

Anyone who knows anything about modern French politics and history will know about Jacques Lange.

He's an incredibly permanent figure in the French political landscape.

He's now 86.

You know, he's been around since the 80s as Mitterrand's socialist culture minister back then.

So a very, very well-known figure, now head of this Arab World Institute.

When the files were revealed a week or so ago, it was quickly seen that Jack Lang's name keeps coming up.

It comes up nearly 700 times in the new files.

And his daughters too, Caroline, who was a figure in the film world.

Now, there's no suggestion for a second that either of them had anything to do or knowledge of his sexual activities, but...

There is a suspicion that they were, A, very friendly with him.

It's quite clear that that was the case because Epstein would constantly be in touch with Lange when he came to Paris.