Much suggests that the arson on the cable bridge over the Teltow Canal near the Lichterfelde combined heat and power plant in Berlin has a terrorist background, stated the head of the German Ministry of Justice, DW reports.
Federal Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig announced the start of a thorough investigation into the arson of power lines in Berlin. There is much to suggest that the arson on the cable bridge over the Teltow Canal near the Lichterfelde combined heat and power plant has a terrorist background, Hubig stated in an interview with the Rheinische Post published on Wednesday, January 7.
"This arson attack had serious consequences for several tens of thousands of people," the minister noted. "Therefore, the rule of law must resolutely employ all available means to find the criminals and hold them accountable, and it (the rule of law - Ed.) will do so." It is therefore quite logical that the investigation has been transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office, Hubig stated. Prior to this, the investigation was conducted by the Berlin Prosecutor's Office.
Likely attack by left-wing extremists on the CHP plant in Berlin
The perpetrators set fire to the cable bridge over the Teltow Canal near the gas CHP plant Lichterfelde on January 3. As a result, thousands of households and hundreds of businesses in Berlin were left without electricity. According to the city's governing mayor Kai Wegner, the power outages affected approximately 100,000 residents of the German capital.
Responsibility for the attack on critical infrastructure was claimed by representatives of the left-wing radical extremist group Vulkan. Its representatives stated that the target of the attack on the CHP plant was "fossil energy as such."
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