In Gateshead, a town of 90,000 inhabitants located in the North East England region, a 5G cell phone antenna was sabotaged on Friday, January 14, around 9:30 pm. Several teams of firefighters were sent to the site in the Leam Lane area, but were unable to save it and prevent the flames from cutting off communications to the entire area. The cops immediately referred to “an act of malice” and opened an investigation.
In Bradford, a city of 500,000 inhabitants located in West Yorkshire, a 5G phone antenna was deliberately set on fire on December 24 at dusk around 7:50 pm. The fire was set in Southfield Lane at the level
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Bradford (England), August 16, 2021
of the electrical boxes located at the foot of the mast, before climbing up to its top. In order not to set too bad an example and to prevent it from collapsing, it was urgently dismantled the next day.
This is not the first time that 5G antennas have been set on fire in Bradford, and the last one was on August 16 at 11 pm at the junction of Trinity Road and Little Horton, where another one had been completely destroyed. Again, the fire had been launched from the connection boxes located at its feet before cutting it off.
In Derby, a city of 250,000 in the East Midlands region, another 5G cell phone mast went up in smoke around Christmas on December 20 at around 8:15 p.m. Firefighters and police rushed to the Sir Frank Whittle Road, called by residents who reported smoke and flames coming from the mast. The main road through the north of the city (A61) was closed to traffic for twelve hours while investigations were carried out.
The police noted that the same antenna had already suffered a first incendiary sabotage on May 23, 2020 around 2am, just two days after its inauguration. They are now looking for “any witnesses who noticed anything suspicious just before or after the incident.”
In 2020, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), the U.K.’s telecom regulator, revealed in its annual “Connected Nations” report that no fewer than 159 base stations of all operators – either antennas or their technical premises – had been attacked in the U.K. that year. In its latest document, released in December 2021, it was careful not to provide its readers with the official number of sabotages during the year against these particular structures of domination. But it doesn’t matter that this global figure is now silent… since with these few winter examples, it remains clear that the smoke signals do not cease to illuminate the English nights. In any case, we don’t see why the antennas would stop blazing… at least as long as they continue to invade our lives.
