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 them and has been arrested. Due to the scope of the cases, responsibility now changes to Karlsruhe.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a series of sabotage attacks on Germany's power grid. The suspect, who was detained near the Weisweiler power plant in Aachen, is accused of using homemade rockets to cause short circuits in high-voltage power lines near coal-fired power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg, and Saxony.
The attacks, which caused some power plant blocks to shut down, are believed to have been motivated by "climate terrorism," with the suspect reportedly writing that "electricity generation from fossil fuels is a crime." The case has been taken over by the Federal Prosecutor's Office, and the suspect is being held in investigative custody.
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