Munich : sabotage of geothermal energy construction site

On the evening of Monday October 23, a new energy infrastructure site was targeted in the Munich area. Green capitalism advocates be damned, after the triple arson attack on a geothermal power plant under construction in Polling (some 50 km east of Munich) on the night of October 2, this time it was the large pipes of another geothermal line that were attacked south of the Bavarian capital.

The first alert occurred at around 8.30pm in Egling, a community on the southern outskirts of Munich, when an excavator was engulfed in flames, destroying other site equipment. Then, at around 11.30pm, local police detectives discovered damage on a completely different scale in Grünwald. For some time now, Erdwärme Grünwald has been building a new 4.7-kilometre pipeline line, using forest roads and footpaths through the Perlacher forest, right up to the huge Bavaria Film studio complex. While history records that the famous feature film The Great Escape was filmed here (severely degrading the forest and prompting the production company to buy… 2,000 tree seeds to replant it!), that night was synonymous with great despair for Andreas Lederle, managing director of the geothermal company.

Three fires were set in the trenches of the new pipeline under construction, each about 400 meters apart, causing damage estimated at 500,000 euros on the three damaged sections. “The attack set back the construction work by several months”, choked the manager in the local press the very next day, not least because the shut-off valves had been destroyed, and the delivery time for this specific equipment is particularly long. In the absence of any claim, he does not suspect “opponents of geothermal energy” of being behind the attack, but is happy to point the finger at “disrupters of our society’s system on principle”. This is echoed by the mayor of Grünwald, whose only claim to fame is serving domination: “These criminals are only interested in destruction for the sake of destruction.

As for the police, the investigation was entrusted to the Munich State Security Criminal Section.

[Synthesis of German regional newspapers (Süddeutsche Zeitung & Merkur), October 24, 2023]

via: sansnom
Translated by Act for freedom now!