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Train failures in Berlin and Herne: cable theft as the cause - no political motive according to investigations
Title: Months-long investigation into railway sabotage: cable theft as the cause Subtitle: Suspicion of a political motive not confirmed - cable thefts identified as the trigger for the railway failures By B.Z./dpa Months-long investigations by the Federal Prosecutor's Office into the alleged railway sabotage in Berlin and Herne have not revealed any suspicion of a political motive, according to ARD information. Instead, cable thefts were identified as the cause of the widespread rail outages on October 8th, as reported by ARD. A spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office did not want to comment on the report on Saturday when asked by the German Press Agency and referred to ongoing investigations. Deutsche Bahn also emphasized that the process had not yet been completed. On October 8th...
Train failures in Berlin and Herne: cable theft as the cause - no political motive according to investigations
Title: Months-long investigation into railway sabotage: cable theft as the cause
Subtitle: Suspicion of a political motive not confirmed - cable thefts identified as the trigger for the train failures
By B.Z./dpa
According to ARD information, months-long investigations by the Federal Prosecutor's Office into the alleged railway sabotage in Berlin and Herne have not revealed any suspicion of a political motive. Instead, cable thefts were identified as the cause of the widespread rail outages on October 8th, as reported by ARD. A spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office did not want to comment on the report on Saturday when asked by the German Press Agency and referred to ongoing investigations. Deutsche Bahn also emphasized that the process had not yet been completed.
On October 8th, essential cables for the railway's train radio were damaged in Berlin and Herne in North Rhine-Westphalia. As a result, rail traffic in large parts of northern Germany came to a standstill for several hours. What attracted particular attention was the fact that two critical points in the railway network were affected at the same time.
Both Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) and Deutsche Bahn spoke of sabotage. The Federal Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation into possible unconstitutional sabotage. The state security service in Bochum also assumed it was a “politically motivated act”.
However, according to the ARD report, the motive was probably “pure greed,” as high prices for copper cables can be achieved on the black market. According to current knowledge, the almost simultaneous outages in Berlin and Herne were a coincidence. For this reason, preparations are being made in Karlsruhe for the proceedings to be forwarded to the local public prosecutor's offices.
Both a spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Ministry of Transport did not comment on the new findings on Saturday.
Topics: railway, sabotage