Power supply: Federal Prosecutor's Office takes over investigations into power sabotage
There have been several sabotage attacks on the power grid. A 48-year-old man has confessed to the attacks and has been arrested. Due to the severity of the cases, responsibility is now being transferred to Karlsruhe.
The German Federal Prosecutor's Office has taken over the investigation into a series of sabotage attacks on the country's power grid. A 48-year-old man is suspected of attempting to sabotage power lines near coal-fired power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg, and Saxony. He was arrested on Tuesday near the Weisweiler power plant in Aachen after police noticed him during a large-scale operation.
The suspect allegedly set up launch devices and used homemade rockets to shoot wires over high-voltage lines, causing short circuits and disabling individual blocks of nearby power plants.
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