Suspicious object at power station in Dormagen – possible sabotage
A suspicious object has been found near a power station in Dormagen, Germany. Police are investigating whether it is part of a series of sabotage acts targeting energy infrastructure.
Latest alert in Germany: suspicious object at power network
A passer-by discovered a suspicious object near a power station in Dormagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, according to Interia, citing German media and the dpa news agency. Officers from Neuss suspect it could have been a bomb fuse, though this has not been officially confirmed. Police are also searching other nearby power stations for possible further objects.
The incident in Dormagen fits into a series of concerning incidents involving energy infrastructure in Germany. On Tuesday evening, emergency services responded to a station in Bergheim – approximately 25 km west of Cologne – where a short circuit and failure of several high-voltage lines occurred. On Wednesday morning, authorities classified the incident as "intentional act, crime". The head of the interior ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul, informed that investigators are examining leads pointing both to the activity of a third state and to left-wing extremism.
A day earlier, emergency services discovered an improvised explosive device at a transformer station in Turnow-Preilack municipality in Brandenburg, near the Jaenschwalde coal power plant. The state interior minister, Jan Redmann, assessed that placing the charge was an act of sabotage.
German services are conducting an investigation into acts of sabotage targeting the constitutional order and disruptions to the operations of public enterprises. According to preliminary findings, the organisational pattern of events in Bergheim and Brandenburg shows similarities.
In the background of these events, a Russian thread emerges. The German government has attributed to Russia responsibility for an August incident with a drone carrying explosive material at Leipzig airport. According to German press, suspects are a man with a Latvian passport born in Russia and a Russian national from Belarus. Moscow rejects these allegations.
Source: Interia