Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the October incidents targeted 700 sites and described them as unprecedented in scale.
France has attributed a series of cyberattacks on supermarket refrigeration systems to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). According to reports from Firstpost, the incidents occurred on October 11 and 12, affecting approximately 700 sites across the country.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot stated on the sidelines of a G7 meeting in Paris that the intrusions caused temperatures to rise, forcing some stores to discard perishable food. He described the event as an unprecedented act of aggression and the first large-scale sabotage attempt on French territory.
The Paris prosecutor's office has opened a judicial investigation into Shahid Kaveh, a cyber unit linked to the IRGC. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the investigation targets the head of the unit and two deputies, noting that the attackers used the Persian language and IP addresses traced to Iran.
The attackers allegedly accessed equipment through web interfaces to initiate defrost cycles while simultaneously disabling security alerts. The New Indian Express reported that temperatures reached 50 degrees Celsius for about six hours during the October 12 attack.
France has summoned the Iranian ambassador to lodge a formal protest. Barrot said the government intends to implement sanctions at the European level against those responsible for the attacks.
