Munich , one relay antenna less
Around 2:20 a.m. on Saturday night, July 16, a relay antenna was set on fire in Forstenrieder Park, near the town of Pullach (a southern suburb of Munich). It was at this time that the cell phone operator lost all signal, before sending a team to the site the following day at around 1pm (a Sunday), who could only observe that its installation had been burnt down during the night before the fire extinguished itself, without however completely destroying the tower.
The authorities, for their part, obviously do not presume a technical fault – the familiar police theory of the self-combustion of relay antennas is now a bit forced – but rather a “crime affecting State Security”, leading them to entrust the investigation to the K43 police station (“far-left political criminality”).
All the more so since another telephone antenna went up in smoke at the beginning of June in the east of the city, and an intensification of attacks seems to have been taking place in Munich over the last few months, ranging from fiber optics to data cables along bridges, and including the burning of electric cars (municipally owned, or not) and luxury cars (two BMW X5s up in smoke at a dealership on Landsberger Straße on July 10, as part of the Switch off the system campaign).
[German press summary (Tageszeitung), July 17 2023]