Drone incident in Leipzig: "Hybrid attack scenario" - Dobrindt sees "new quality of danger"
Near a Ukrainian Antonov aircraft, police at Leipzig Airport discovered a drone equipped with explosives. Behind this could be "foreign powers," the interior minister says.
Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) declared a "hybrid attack scenario" after discovering a bomb-equipped drone at Leipzig Airport. Dobrindt described it as a "very serious security-related incident" and a "new level of danger" at a press conference with his Saxon counterpart, Armin Schuster (CDU), and Saxon State Prosecutor Wolfgang Schwürzer.
Schuster emphasized that the situation was not about amateur drone pilots who might have gotten lost near the airport. Instead, it involved a very serious situation. In the night before Wednesday, a drone was noticed near a Ukrainian Antonov transport aircraft, carrying a bomb that specialists from the Federal Police detonated safely.
Authorities are also searching for parts of a suspected second drone that might have collided with a DHL freight aircraft after a runway was blocked, causing minor damage. The Saxony State Criminal Office and the Prosecutor's Office in Dresden took over the investigations, looking into all possible angles. Dobrindt refrained from discussing the type of explosive used or the possible origin of the drone.
However, it was clear that the perpetrators were not amateurs, requiring considerable technical expertise and knowledge in handling explosives.
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