German police detain substation sabotage suspect near a power plant with explosive devices in his possession and bombs in a nearby tent

Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine

German police detained Daniel V., a 48-year-old resident of Germany, on suspicion of sabotaging several electrical substations across the country. A traffic patrol stopped him to check his documents near the Weisweiler power plant, outside Aachen.

Daniel V. tried to flee when he encountered the patrol but did not resist officers, according to Bild’s Russian-language Telegram channel. Police found explosive devices on him and bombs in a nearby tent.

Police had been searching for Daniel V. across Europe for several days after letters identifying Daniel V. as the sender arrived at German news outlets last week. The author said he was responsible for several attacks on electrical substations in Germany, saying, “Generating electricity from fossil fuels is a crime.”

The letters included the presumed sender’s full address in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The address led police to link Daniel V. to the attacks. Police also found explosives while searching his apartment in Gevelsberg.

Daniel V. is suspected of involvement in sabotage at electrical substations in Jänschwalde, near Berlin; Bergheim, near Cologne; and Dormagen, near Düsseldorf.

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Friday that the attacks were very likely an act of “climate terrorism” by a lone perpetrator. Saxony’s interior minister, Armin Schuster, cautioned Tuesday that the motive remained unclear and that the suspect could have acted on someone else’s orders. Officials had previously considered the possibility that “foreign powers” were behind the incident in Brandenburg. That suspicion followed sabotage at Leipzig Airport that Germany says Russian agents carried out.

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