Police operation after attempted attacks on the power grid in East Saxony

Police operations there continue after attempted attacks on the power grid in East Saxony. The electrical infrastructure will continue to be searched, a spokesman for the Görlitz Police Department said on Sunday upon request. The larger operation, which has been running since Friday, could be ended during the day, it was said. Then you will be informed finally.

On Saturday, the Dresden police and public prosecutor's office announced that a total of twelve explosive devices had been found in the Lusatian brown coal region on the border with Brandenburg. “These were intended to cause damage to the electrical high-voltage lines through a short circuit,” informed the police and the Dresden Public Prosecutor’s Office. There was no damage to the power grid and there was no danger to the population, it said.

The search for suspects is ongoing

Meanwhile, an intensive search is underway for a man who is said to have carried out sabotage actions against the German power grid. The incidents are concentrated in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Brandenburg and Saxony. The police and public prosecutor's office in Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia published a joint search call on Saturday with two photos of the 48-year-old and are asking the public for information.

On Friday, police officers found explosives in the suspect's apartment in Gevelsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Later, a special operations team stormed a truck in a forest in Niederzier, around 100 kilometers away, that had apparently been converted into a mobile home. However, the person they were looking for was not found.