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Since January, several sabotage of electrical installations have been reported in Germany. The suspect is presented by authorities as a climate extremist activist, although the investigation is also examining avenues of left-wing extremism or remote-controlled sabotage by a foreign state.
In Germany, police were still looking on Friday for a 48-year-old man suspected of having targeted several electrical installations since Tuesday. Originally from North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, he allegedly claimed responsibility for these acts and sabotage attempts in two letters addressed to law enforcement and the media. The German government presents him at this stage as an activist of “climate extremism”.
During a search of his home, investigators discovered “suspicious substances or objects suspected of being explosives,” said Herbert Reul, Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia. These elements are still being analyzed. The investigation, opened for “sabotage directed against the constitutional order”, also examines “a possible motive of left-wing extremism and sabotage possibly remotely controlled by a foreign state”.
The author signed his letters of claim
The letters of demand, considered authentic by the authorities, mention “the fight against fossil fuels”. The suspect, identified by the media as Daniel V., states: “I am not attacking the country, but the fossil raw materials industry, even if, for certain political leaders, it is the same thing.” According to Herbert Reul, the author even indicated his name and address, an approach he considers “very unusual”.
Friday afternoon, according to Bild, the truck used by the suspect in his escape was found in an area linked to the former ZAD of the Hambach forest. This site had been for several years a place of mobilization against the exploitation of lignite and the extension of an open-air mine. The letters also mention other targets, including an electrical substation in Dormagen, where suspicious objects were discovered Thursday evening near a transformer.
Numerous sabotages since January
The first incident mentioned in the claim occurred on Tuesday in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany, far from the other sites concerned. This geographical distance leaves open the question of possible complicity. The sabotage committed since Tuesday did not cause a massive power outage, but the operation of neighboring power plants was briefly disrupted.
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AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The investigation will make it possible to identify possible accomplices of the suspect in the coming weeks.
Likely · Within weeks
Analyzes of the substances discovered will determine whether they were indeed explosives.
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