Power supply: Over 160 sabotage targets? Federal prosecutor's office now investigating
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.
The German Federal Prosecutor's Office has taken over the investigation into a suspect accused of sabotaging the country's power grid. The 48-year-old man, who was arrested on Tuesday, is suspected of attempting to cause widespread power outages by targeting power lines near coal-fired power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg, and Saxony.
A notebook found in his recreational vehicle listed over 160 potential sabotage targets, and police have found more than 40 rocket launchers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The suspect's motives are believed to be related to "climate terrorism," with one of the confessional letters stating that "power generation from fossil fuels is a crime."
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