On Friday evening there was a fire on three Deutsche Bahn power lines in the Hamburg city area. The investigators assume an attack – and a political motive. A confession that has now emerged points to left-wing extremist perpetrators. Train traffic between Hamburg and Berlin will remain disrupted until Saturday.
“On the night of September 7, we sabotaged the arteries of the capitalist infrastructure in Hamburg,” says the letter of responsibility, which appeared on the left-wing platform “Indymedia” on Friday.
“Neocolonial exploitation”
And it continues: “A few liters of gasoline in the cable shafts on the rails should in the long run lead to failures or limitations in the transportation of raw materials acquired, for example, in the course of neocolonial exploitation and earth-destroying extractivism. .”
Fire paralyzes the Berlin-Hamburg railway line
However, the letter mainly concerns freight transport. The law should therefore apply to parts of the route “not used for passenger transport”. Nevertheless, passenger traffic between Berlin and Hamburg is now seriously disrupted. A large number of long-distance trains between the two cities were canceled on Friday.
“We are aware of the confession letter and will of course be involved in the investigation or are already part of it,” Hamburg police said.
The police are looking for witnesses
Cable shafts burned out at three locations along railway lines in the Hanseatic city on Friday evening. Investigators now suspect a political motive. The police are now looking for witnesses. The fires were discovered between 2:30 a.m. and 3:40 a.m. The fires are believed to have been deliberately set, it was said.
“We condemn the arson of our infrastructure in the strongest possible terms,” said Hans-Hilmar Rischke, head of corporate security at Deutsche Bahn. “People who want to travel with us – with one of the most climate-friendly means of transport – are being massively affected by train cancellations and delays and are unable to reach their destinations.” We are in close contact with the security authorities and hope for quick success in the search.
Source: Krone
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