A fire broke out in a substation in Berlin-Moabit. The criminal police are investigating a technical defect and a criminal offense after a man from North Rhine-Westphalia published a letter of confession.
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There was a fire on a construction site and parts of the system at a substation in Berlin-Moabit on Monday night.
A fire broke out in a substation in Berlin on Monday night. At around 2.40 a.m. police and fire services were called to Bissingzeile in the Moabit district. A construction site and part of the substation burned there, the Berlin police said in a post on X. The construction site and substation were damaged by the fire.
The criminal police are now investigating whether the cause was a technical defect or a crime. The power supply was not affected.
A man from North Rhine-Westphalia, who the police are currently searching for, claimed responsibility for the crimes. The 48-year-old from Gevelsberg in the Ennepe-Ruhr district cited the fight against fossil fuels as a motive in a letter of responsibility. It is unclear whether the fire in Berlin is related to this.
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