Germany Finds Explosive Devices at Power Substations Amid Growing Sabotage Wave
- Police reported explosive devices found near LEAG-operated electricity substations in the Saxony districts of Graustein and Berwalde, close to the Brandenburg border.
- Investigators identified a 49-year-old suspect from North Rhine-Westphalia after police received a letter on September 3 claiming responsibility for the latest incident and other attempted attacks.
- Searching the suspect's Gevelsberg apartment, investigators recovered potassium nitrate and perchlorate—substances used in explosive mixtures—while police later located his vehicle abandoned in a forest.
- Saxony Interior Minister Armin Schuster confirmed authorities were dealing with "unknown explosive devices" amid similar sabotage attempts in Brandenburg and Cologne in recent days.
- German authorities have recorded more than 165 suspected sabotage incidents since 2026 began, with attacks linked to opposition toward fossil-fuel energy at lignite-mining substations.
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In East Germany, law enforcement officers discovered and defused a dozen improvised explosive devices planted at high voltage power lines to provoke short circuit. 12 improvised explosive devices were discovered by German law enforcement at high voltage transmission lines in the Federal Land of Saxony in the east of Germany, and transmitted to RIA News with reference to DPA. "After attacks on the grid in other federal lands, police discovered a …
100 police cars are at the German Hambach Forest. There they are looking for the suspected electrical saboteur Daniel V. “Several people have contacted us about this,” the police tell Bild.
For days, the police have been looking for a 48-year-old from NRW, who is supposed to be responsible for attempted sabotage against the German electricity grid.
For days the 48-year-old has been looking for, who is said to have attached several explosive devices to high-voltage lines. Now the police are focusing on the forest west of Cologne.
After a series of sabotage actions, the police have been searching for a suspect, a 48-year-old man, for several days.
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