Europe-wide investigations: Another attack on the power grid - Confession letter provides clues
The series of attacks on the energy supply in Germany continues. Now a letter claiming responsibility may provide investigators with new clues. Officials are examining another substation.
A 48-year-old man from Gevelsberg, near Hagen, is being sought by police across Europe after writing two letters claiming responsibility for recent sabotage attacks on Germany's energy supply. The letters, sent to several German media outlets, contained details of the attacks that were not publicly known at the time, including an attack on a power plant near Aachen that had not been disclosed by authorities.
Police found a suspicious device with a timer and copper wires at a substation in Dormagen, and later discovered thin wires near a power plant in Weisweiler, near Aachen, which the suspect had mentioned in one of the letters. The suspect, who has been identified as a 48-year-old man from Gevelsberg, claims to have acted alone, stating that his motivation is that "electricity generation from fossil fuels is a crime".
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