Attack on the facility grid: Dobrindt calls for a reward for details about the “volcano group” | EUROtoday

After the assault by suspected left-wing extremists on the facility provide in Berlin, Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) is asking for a money reward for essential ideas. A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior informed “Bild am Sonntag” that Dobrindt supported a “high financial reward for information” to assist establish the perpetrators. The arson assault on a cable bridge left 45,000 households and a couple of,200 business models quickly with out energy. The left-wing extremist Vulcan group claimed accountability.

The state and federal legal police places of work in addition to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution categorised the letter of confession as credible. It mentioned that energy outages had been “not the aim of the campaign, but rather the fossil energy industry”. The Federal Prosecutor General is now investigating suspicions of membership in a terrorist group, unconstitutional sabotage, arson and disrupting public operations.

According to the newspaper, safety circles are hoping {that a} reward within the six or seven-figure vary will give new impetus to the search.

According to data from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, so-called volcano teams have existed since 2011 and have been finishing up arson assaults in Berlin and Brandenburg ever since. Targets are often cable shafts on railway traces, but additionally radio masts or information traces, and typically additionally firm automobiles.

In the previous, volcano teams have claimed accountability for, amongst different issues, two assaults on the Tesla manufacturing facility in Grünheide, Brandenburg, which they branded as “green capitalism”. After unknown individuals carried out an arson assault on the automotive producer’s energy provide in May 2021, a high-voltage pylon within the rapid neighborhood of the car manufacturing facility was destroyed by arson in March 2024. As a outcome, each the plant and the encircling cities had been lower off from energy for days.

In 2020, a volcano group additionally claimed accountability for an arson assault on the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin as a result of it was concerned within the improvement of the Corona app.