{
  "id": 6616272,
  "title": "Power supply: Over 160 sabotage targets? Federal prosecutor's office now investigating",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/stromversorgung-uber-160-sabotageziele-bundesanwaltschaft-ermittelt",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-10T16:40:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/stromversorgung-ueber-160-sabotageziele-bundesanwaltschaft-ermittelt-nun/100253661.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "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.\"",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}