On Saturday night a power line burned in Berlin. Thick pipes were completely on fire. Was it arson? The investigation is ongoing.
Berlin – Because of a suspected arson on a power line in Berlin, around 15,000 households were without electricity on Saturday night. In some cases, the power failure continued on Saturday.
Thick pipes that cross the S-Bahn ring on Dänenstrasse and between which cables run were completely on fire, the police said. Initially, there was talk of a nearby pedestrian bridge.
According to the police, the background to the fire was not fully clarified on Saturday. The criminal police did not rule out both targeted arson and negligent, i.e. accidental, arson. At the same time, the state security responsible for extremist acts in the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) also checked whether there could have been a political motive.
The spokesman for the police union in the country (GdP), Benjamin Jendro, tweeted: “This is not a political expression of opinion. Anyone who carries out arson attacks on important components of our infrastructure and supply structure is acting absolutely senseless and attacking our democratic coexistence. These extremist attacks may not claim human lives, but are nonetheless a perfidious attempt to destabilize something that should not be belittled. “
Arson attacks on supply facilities in Berlin have occurred several times. The perpetrators were often left-wing extremists, according to letters confessing them on the Internet. In October a year ago there was an arson attack on cable connections of the S-Bahn near Frankfurter Allee station. The S-Bahn traffic was disturbed for a long time. dpa
