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German Police Hunt Suspect Who Claimed Substation Sabotage Spree
(MENAFN) German police launched a manhunt Friday for a 48-year-old man who mailed handwritten letters to newsrooms claiming responsibility for a series of sabotage attacks on electric substations, saying he acted to protest fossil-fuel power generation.
Media reports identified the suspect as Daniel V., of Gevelsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, noting the letters bore his full signature and that device descriptions in the letters matched evidence found at the attack sites.
The writer said he acted alone, insisting left-wing groups and activists "had nothing to do with it." "Electricity generation from fossil fuels is a crime that brings unspeakable suffering," one letter read. "Because the media don't do a damn thing to convey the urgency of the situation and the state does not intervene to avert this suffering, I have to do it now."
In another passage, he wrote: "I am not attacking the country but the fossil fuel industry, even if for some politicians that is the same thing." He added that he was "pleased that there were no power outages and yet coal-fired power plant units went offline," and said he would "not be sad" if outages hit Germany's arms industry, "particularly as long as Germany supports the genocide in Palestine."
The letters detailed the alleged sabotage method, describing electric detonators, timers, pipes and wire used to fling conductive material onto high-voltage lines to trigger short circuits.
Police raided the suspect's home in Gevelsberg on Friday and later searched a truck discovered in woodland near Duren, close to the Hambach lignite mine, but did not find him there; the search was ongoing. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul said the suspect is now believed to be on foot.
The incident marks the third sabotage attempt on German electric substations this week. The first struck Tuesday near the Jaenschwalde coal-fired plant in Brandenburg, using homemade devices to launch conductive material at high-voltage lines. A second attack hit a substation in Bergheim, west of Cologne, hours later. On Thursday evening, a walker discovered similar devices near a substation in Dormagen, where police said someone had apparently tried to cause a short circuit, though no damage was reported.
Media reports identified the suspect as Daniel V., of Gevelsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, noting the letters bore his full signature and that device descriptions in the letters matched evidence found at the attack sites.
The writer said he acted alone, insisting left-wing groups and activists "had nothing to do with it." "Electricity generation from fossil fuels is a crime that brings unspeakable suffering," one letter read. "Because the media don't do a damn thing to convey the urgency of the situation and the state does not intervene to avert this suffering, I have to do it now."
In another passage, he wrote: "I am not attacking the country but the fossil fuel industry, even if for some politicians that is the same thing." He added that he was "pleased that there were no power outages and yet coal-fired power plant units went offline," and said he would "not be sad" if outages hit Germany's arms industry, "particularly as long as Germany supports the genocide in Palestine."
The letters detailed the alleged sabotage method, describing electric detonators, timers, pipes and wire used to fling conductive material onto high-voltage lines to trigger short circuits.
Police raided the suspect's home in Gevelsberg on Friday and later searched a truck discovered in woodland near Duren, close to the Hambach lignite mine, but did not find him there; the search was ongoing. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul said the suspect is now believed to be on foot.
The incident marks the third sabotage attempt on German electric substations this week. The first struck Tuesday near the Jaenschwalde coal-fired plant in Brandenburg, using homemade devices to launch conductive material at high-voltage lines. A second attack hit a substation in Bergheim, west of Cologne, hours later. On Thursday evening, a walker discovered similar devices near a substation in Dormagen, where police said someone had apparently tried to cause a short circuit, though no damage was reported.
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