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Investigations into arrests for attacks on electricity supply are ongoing
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Investigations into arrests for attacks on electricity supply are ongoing

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  • After the arrest of a 48-year-old suspect near Aachen for attacks on the power supply in three federal states, the police are continuing their investigations.
  • So far there is no evidence of other accomplices.

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A 48-year-old man was arrested at a substation after he was blamed for attacks on electricity supplies in three states.

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The police are continuing their investigations after the arrest of a suspect for attacks on the power supply in three federal states. “We currently have no indication that there are other perpetrators here,” said Brandenburg Police Headquarters spokeswoman Beate Kardels to the German Press Agency. “Nevertheless, this is of course also the further part of the investigation in order to rule it out completely.”

The police in North Rhine-Westphalia had previously arrested a 48-year-old suspected suspect near the Weisweiler substation near Aachen. According to the police, he had additional explosives with him when he was arrested, and there were more explosives in a tent nearby. He is said to be responsible for several attacks on the power supply in Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony.

The Cottbus public prosecutor's office is investigating the suspicion of causing an explosive explosion and the suspicion of destroying important work equipment. Brandenburg's Interior Minister Jan Redmann (CDU) spoke of a "misguided individual perpetrator".

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  • Are there other crime scenes that have not yet been discovered?
  • What was the suspect's motive?

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