Another "situation" occurred at Leipzig-Halle Airport: the airport fence was vandalized

(Deutsche Welle Chinese website) A preliminary police investigation showed that the fence of Leipzig-Halle Airport was breached after being hit by a car at high speed. Leipzig police said: "The results of the investigation so far indicate that damage to the fence was most likely caused by a car impact." "

In the early hours of Sunday morning, police launched a large-scale search operation at the airport, but no suspicious persons or objects were found. The search was still ongoing on Sunday.

At Leipzig-Halle Airport, there are both Russian Antonov cargo planes and Ukrainian aircraft parked. After Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022, the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia. Russia's Antonov cargo planes were banned from taking off and therefore have been stranded at Leipzig-Halle Airport.

Schuhart, spokesman for Leipzig-Halle Airport, said that although the damaged fence and the Russian cargo plane are both located in the northern part of the airport, there is still a certain distance between them. But he did not disclose the distance between the two. The Ukrainian cargo plane was parked in the south of the airport, and this area was not affected by the incident.

A spokesman for the federal police said that the possibility that this was just an accident could not be ruled out at present, and the cause of the incident still cannot be determined. Sino-German TV reported that at 23:00 last night, airport security personnel promptly discovered the damage to the fence. The incident happened near Highway 14. The airport immediately closed the north runway.

An airport spokesman said passenger and cargo traffic throughout the airport had not been affected.

In August this year, a drone equipped with an explosive device was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle Airport. The German government accused Russia of being behind the attempted attack, but Moscow denied it.