CD Leganés, Los Morancos, and the mayor of Málaga are among those affected by the high-speed rail strikes this Sunday.

Thousands of people were stranded on high-speed and Avant trains this Sunday without food or drink on the Madrid-Seville line near Toledo. The Minister of Transport attributes the incident to sabotage. According to his social media accounts, the incident was due to cable theft at four different points in the towns of Los Yébenes and Manzaneque. Renfe, for its part, attributed the chaos to an Iryo train snagging the overhead line, which left the rest of the trains without power.

The incidents affected 30 trains and 10,700 passengers . Among them was a girl who, according to Minister Óscar Puente, suffered an attack of appendicitis. Also affected were well-known figures such as Club Deportivo Leganés, who had just played a match against Sevilla; the mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre; Javier Arenas and Juan Bravo of the PP; and Los Morancos.

The latter tried to liven up the journey by improvising a song when the train stopped. "We were arriving at 10:30 p.m., but we made a mistake... What time are we going to arrive? Let Renfe tell us, they'll know. Oh, how good it is with my friends..." sang César Cadaval, a member of the comedy duo.

Meanwhile, his brother Jorge told his followers on Instagram how the situation was developing . "You can't imagine what happened. We're standing here in the middle of the track because, according to Renfe, they've stolen a cable," he said at the beginning of the stoppage.

Later, through his stories—posts that last 24 hours—he continued to narrate throughout the night. "I don't know if we have four or five hours left here... here's a mother with a little boy who wants to heat up his food, but there's no way," he expressed.

Cadaval resumed the narration at 4:45 a.m. to explain that they were still stopped and show how the passengers were trying to get some sleep. At 6:15 a.m., he announced that the train was moving and that they expected to arrive at their destination, Seville, at 8:30 a.m.

"It was a night to tell... the truth is, at first we took it with joy, with a joke... but that was just after the AVE stopped around 10 p.m. or thereabouts, and then people were already tired," César Cadaval explained in statements to Antena 3 upon getting off the train.

The chaos continued this Monday morning at various Spanish stations . "We're going to Córdoba; our train was leaving at 8:15 a.m.," explained a commuter from Madrid's Atocha station. He added that they learned about the incident along the way and had no further information at this time.

Uncertainty also arose among a group of friends heading to Seville. Their train, an Ouigo, was supposed to leave Atocha station for the Andalusian capital at 7:40 a.m. "It was so crowded we couldn't even get through, it was so packed," they said about their arrival at the station shortly before 7:00 a.m. this Monday. "They sent us an email from Ouigo, saying there was a delay, but they haven't told us anything else," they concluded.

According to Adif, service between Madrid and Andalusia was restored just after 10:02 a.m. this Monday morning. "Traffic will be gradually restored," they stated in a message on the social network X.